Butternut Squash Soup

What do you reach for when something comforting calls your name?

If you’re like me, once in a while, the call is answered by something impulsive and, well, afterwards quite aggravating. As a food lover, the wrong foods often filled the spot where something more inspiring should have sat. But for you, perhaps it’s not a palate pleasing, oral fix you seek to feed your need for comfort.

Whatever it is, be sure you know your need before you fill it. What I’d like to suggest is that we seek the thing that can fill our soul before we beseech our body’s need for instant indulgence. It’s the way of the world and, of course, our human nature. But when the wrong piece to the puzzle is forced to fit, the picture just doesn’t turn out right.

So take a look at the source, the root of what you require, before you begin filling it with something incongruent for the original craving. Because when we constantly grab and grope at mismatched solutions, the craving always exists.

It might be simple. It might not. A craving for comfort can be deceiving, even devious, and we’re often driven to dealing with it mindlessly.

So, what can you do when an instantaneous need for relief urges you to consume an incongruent answer? Pause. Breathe. Pray….if you do that sorta thing. Then choose.

For me, I know the hole is always filled properly by the One who makes me whole.

So, yeah, find good flavors and pleasure in what you consume. Food is a gift and I’ll be the first to say I enjoy eating it! But when food’s filling another need, perhaps you need to pause and fill yourself up with the pieces made for the purpose.

There’s that….and now here’s a little relief in the form of some seasonal soup. Mmmmm.....this’ll do the trick when you need a nourishing kind of food comfort! Even my girls, normally not squash lovers, asked for seconds of this simple recipe.