By The Reverend Mrs. Silence DoGood<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dear Editor,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even visits to the nutritionist didn\u2019t help. My eighteen year old daughter Sarah with an H continued to medicate herself with sugar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a mother I sometimes wonder how many times I have to point out the correct actions for my children. Do this! Don\u2019t do that! Year after year I continued to guide my daughter with the hope that she would learn to eat properly. But for years I have watched her spend her allowance on candy and hide it in her bedroom. Wrappers under the bed. Candy bars in the pockets of her jackets hanging in her closet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I believe in talking to my children and I believe in listening. But when I would talk to my daughter about her diet it was more or less always the same:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI feel squirrelly. I need something that makes me feel good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBut what about your diet? You promised.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat difference does it make? No one loves me anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a mother I live to tell my daughter that I love her but it hadn\u2019t made a difference. That is until recently. Maybe sugar won\u2019t win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhy don\u2019t we eat more organic food? Like short-grain-organic-brown rice\u201d she said as she opened the refrigerator looking for a snack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe can do that. What brought this on?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was over at Flossie\u2019s and a new farm hand mentioned that organic grains are the only way to eat. His name is Julian.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Flossie is Sarah with an H\u2019s eighteen year old girlfriend who she has known all of her life. Flossie is Streckfus Weedelmeyer\u2019s daughter. He is known locally as \u201cThe Corn King\u201d because he grows hundreds of acres of sweet corn and then turns it into \u201cWeedelmeyer\u2019s Corn Premiums\u201d which he sells nationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHow old is Julian?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAbout twenty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And there it was. A mysterious outside force that comes into our lives moving us from here to there. A medical doctor and mother couldn\u2019t do it, but a twenty year old farm hand has awakened my daughter\u2019s interest in better nutrition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCan I invite Julian to dinner? I told him what a great cook you are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOf course I would love to meet him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I tell my congregation that I am an \u201cover the stove minister\u201d meaning that I prepare how I can spiritually nourish my congregation as I am preparing nourishment for my family. Now my cooking was making me a match maker as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Julian came to dinner and I saw him I couldn\u2019t believe my emotions. I am a happily married woman, mother of two and the pastor of a growing congregation at the First Church of God\u2019s Love in the bucolic hamlet of Halo, Pennsylvania. I have always had disdain for cougars but I couldn\u2019t belie my feelings. How was it that I felt overwhelming emotions for a twenty year old man who I didn\u2019t know? This is my confession so that we can all learn from my experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
France. I immediately thought of France. Emmanuel Macron is the President of France. He is 43 years old and his wife Brigitte is 67. She was married and the mother of three when in 1993 they met. She was his 40 year old teacher and he was her 15 year old student. Their bond was overwhelmingly emotional and intense. They began their relationship when he turned 18. She divorced her first husband in 2006 and married Macron in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBut no, I am not Brigitte. I am a rational and spiritual woman.\u201d As tears of fulfillment hid in my eyes I tried to explain to myself why I felt whole and complete just seeing Julian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dinner conversation continued. My imagination took hold when I asked Julian his last name and he answered \u201cI didn\u2019t know I needed a last name when I came here.\u201d Images of the fifteen students in my Sunday school drawing an alien space craft over the school bus flashed before me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The foolish fantasies of a wife, mother and pastor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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