2024-01-10 02:00:00
Another important aspect. Jesus breaks down the distinction between pure and impure foods, which was a distinction made from Hebrew law. And Jesus, about this, clearly says that what makes goodness, or evil, let’s put it that way, is food. It is not the food itself, but the relationship we have. And we see it. When a person has a disordered relationship with food, he watches how he eats. He eats in a hurry, wanting to be satisfied but he is never satisfied. He doesn’t have a good relationship with food. He is a slave to food.
Jesus values food, eating, also in society, where many imbalances and many pathologies are manifested. You eat too much, or too little. It is often eaten alone. Eating disorders are spreading: anorexia, bulimia, obesity… And medicine and psychology try to tackle the bad relationship with food. A bad relationship with food causes all these diseases, all of them.
These are diseases, often very painful, related above all to torments of the psyche and soul, there is a relationship between psychological imbalance and the way of eating. As Jesus taught, what is bad is not the food itself, but the relationship we have with it. Food is the manifestation of something internal: the predisposition to balance or excess; the ability to give thanks or the arrogant claim to autonomy; the empathy of those who know how to share food with those in need, or the selfishness of those who accumulate everything for themselves. This is a very important question: Tell me how you eat, and I will tell you what soul you possess. Our interior, our customs and our psychic attitudes are revealed in the way we eat.
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