Food Relationship & the Spirit of Fasting:What does Holy Scripture say? 

Throughout Lent and other fasting periods, I work hard to offer resources and information around food and nutrition. As a registered dietitian, a food and nutrition expert, I seek to educate and inspire. And yet paradoxically, Lent is about the food, and not about the food at all. 

During the Pre-Lenten period (the 3 weeks leading up to Clean Monday), we hear several Epistle and Gospel readings around this topic of food and fasting. Now, a few weeks into Lent, I’m bringing them back, all together in one place, for our reflection. I offer my own thoughts at the end of each passage, and I would love to learn what stirs in your own heart when you read these excerpts from God’s love letter to us.