Man and Church
From the Kitchen Table to the Kingdom of Heaven
Whether preparing a family meal, celebrating a patron saint or making koliva for the departed, even ordinary acts can become offerings of love and prayer.
I was cooking dinner one evening when I was reflecting on my prayer life and how I had a desire to carve out more time for this in my schedule. All you busy parents out there, don’t laugh…ok, laugh.
I was thinking about how the Desert Fathers would spend significant amounts of time in solitude, in prayer with Christ and, in this moment, I paralleled my prayer life to theirs and found myself feeling like I was falling utterly short of God’s calling in my life.
As I stirred the stew on the stovetop, I thought about my grandma Whisenhunt who had great faith…and a great family – eleven children. I suddenly felt even worse thinking how on earth do I find it so hard to find separate prayer time cooking for a family of three when my grandma cooked nightly for thirteen people?
