Eating God

Plains Indians would thank the buffalo they had just killed. They recognized that the buffalo had made a sacrifice so they could survive. Zeus ate his own children. Warriors would sometimes eat the hearts of those they had defeated. If we are playing with a child we love, we will often say, "Umm, I'm going to eat you up."

This is a part of our culture and human history. Why does it still persist? I don't know.

Christians, symbolically or literally, eat the body of Christ. I did. What should happen to me once I've consumed God? Once I'm fed by Christ's body. A profound transformation? How often have you seen that? Do a few extraordinary individuals experience extraordinary transformations and the rest of us ordinary folk only ordinary transformations?

No matter the religion or the spiritual quest, the quester must must be fed to sustain the journey. In our culture it's easy to find fast, crappy food or expensive designer food, but much harder to find good, solid nutritious food. It's the same for the spiritual quest. It's easy to find fast, easy religion or trendy spiritual pathways. It's much harder to find transforming spirituality that moves with courage and generosity  that takes its paththrough the hearts of those around it.