Dear friends, grateful I am to have shared the Challenge with you this week. Whether it has worked out or not for you, whether there has been great insight or not much, knowing your intention to participate in this experience made all the different to me this week. Knowing you are there really matters. Thank you. Today ends the Oommen family participation in the Challenge. Tonight we drive up to Olympia to do a college visit tomorrow with Kiran, so we knew we would be eating other people's food this weekend as we'll be staying with family there. Thus, we prorated our Challenge to five days, and they have been very, very fruitful days. The conversations, the realizations, the deepened awareness, much has been gained from this experience. Even if only from explaining my food choices and behaviors throughout the week to others! We'll be eating a homemade quiche in the car this evening for dinner: on the counter and in the fridge we have: eggs, a little bit of cheese, broccoli, and some flour. That is what is left. I suspect we will enjoy our meal more than any restaurant meal we otherwise would have had.
I hope to see you on Sunday evening at 5 p.m. at United Lutheran for a service of Prayer and Action. On MLK Day eve, it feels like just the right place to be: together. We will pray together, sing together,share our experiences, and have an opportunity to write letters to Congress. And we will receive a non-perishable food offering for Food for Lane County. Seems like the right thing to do.
Glad to be at the Table with you,
Pastor Melanie
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