Our Garden, His Meal

I've been mulling over the meal that God "prepares before us in the presence of our enemies." It dawned on me that we are "co-preparers" of our nourishment. You know that meal that God prepares . . . well, He gets the fruit and vegetables from the garden that we grow.

So when God wants to nourish us and fuss over us and tend to our needs, He goes to our "gardens" and He looks around and He says either, "Hmmm, not much here to work with, not much here to gather from," or He says, "Wow, what a great place to gather food from!"

So we tend our "gardens," our lives, and God gathers the fruits and vegetables from all our tending and then prepares many meals for us in order to nourish us so that we can grow more and more adept at staring down our ever-present enemies.