Thinking Of Food

Good Friday is a day of fasting and abstinence for serious Catholics…a status to which I aspire to be…of course I woke up thinking of food.   The Pharisee in me immediately went to the rules and started picking apart the letter of the law, looking for some loophole. 

“For members of the Latin Catholic Church, the norms on fasting are obligatory from age 18 until age 59. When fasting, a person is permitted to eat one full meal. Two smaller meals may also be taken, but not to equal a full meal. The norms concerning abstinence from meat are binding upon members of the Latin Catholic Church from age 14 onwards.”

 usccb.org

The mathematician in me focused on the equation: two small meals cannot equal one full meal. 

If

X = one small meal

Y = one full meal

And

2X < Y

Solve for “X”

Wait a minute…what’s the value of Y.   Can Y be any value I want it to be?  After all I am the one who has be banned from the “All You Can Eat, Golden Corral”.  

When you’re in the mood.

To eat some food.

Don’t be a jerk.

Get busy with work.

It occupies the mind.

And passes the time.

Think what Jesus did.

Heaven forbid.

He gave it His all.

We just have to call.

In joyful accord,

With a prayer to the Lord.

Amen.