What's For Dinner?

Adam: "Honey, what's for dinner?"

Eve: "Leeks and onion's, Dear."

Adam: "Didn't we have that last night?"

Eve: Sigh

I own one Betty Crocker Cookbook, fourteen Taste of Home Cookbooks, two church Cookbooks compiled by the women in previous churches, and my mother's cookbook that contains old family recipes.  My freezer is well stocked, as is my pantry and refrigerator, and yet every morning I wrestle with the same dilemma: What's for dinner?

I've been married for forty-four years which adds up to 16,060 dinners, not to include the eleven Leap Years that added eleven meals between the year 1981 and 2025.  I would have to subtract meals out, dining with friends, and participating in Fellowship Sundays at Church, but I think you get the idea.

That's a lot of dinners!

The children of Israel murmured about their meals.  They pined for the leeks and onions in Egypt even if it meant slavery. Can you imagine?  And yet, God heard their murmuring and gave them manna every single morning.

"And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat." Exodus 15:16

Manna was OK for a while, but then it started getting a little old having to eat it every single day.  We get to Numbers 11 and see that not only did the children pine for leeks and onions, but they also remembered the fish, the cucumbers, melons and garlick in Egypt.  (Numbers 11:5) Not only did they murmur against the manna, but they also began to weep over the fact that they had to eat it every single day.

This time, the murmuring of the children of God not only made Moses mad, but the anger of the LORD was also kindled greatly. (Numbers 11:10) We all know the rest of the story; God gave the children of Israel quail to eat. "And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague."

Numbers 11:33

I don't think they complained about dinner again.

I won't either.

So, what's for dinner tonight...?

    I believe I will make chicken...

        Thank you, Lord...!

            But that's just me!