Last month, our parish had a planning session at an out of town retreat house. As I had already begun my 90-day meatless fast then, I was hoping that at least some of our meals at the venue would have non-meat options. However, on the first day, it was all chicken, beef or pork from breakfast to dinner!
But I didn't really complain -- after all, I am on this fast for a purpose. I just found other ways to make sure I got food in my tummy: for breakfast, I had "butter asukal" (our nickname for bread with butter & sugar); for lunch, I had crab & corn soup with rice; for dinner, I put the sauce of the meat dish on my rice for flavor and ate the side veggies that came with it. :-)
The next morning, God had a very unexpected surprise for me! At breakfast, I was happy to see that there was daing na bangus (salted and dried milkfish) on the buffet table. I also saw some hotdogs and I think tocino or longganisa (I don't remember), but of course, I just skipped over those and proceeded to get myself some suka (vinegar). I was happily eating my fish when the big surprise came -- one of my tablemates said that the hotdogs were actually made out of TUNA.
"Tuna hotdogs???" I thought incredulously. I'd never heard of them before! (haha, I obviously don't watch much TV!) I thought that maybe my friends heard the food servers wrong. So I went back to the buffet table to ask them myself. And they confirmed that indeed, it was a Tuna hotdog!
Gosh, that moment sure felt a lot like Christmas!!! :-) I imagined it was God who personally served me those hotdogs on a silver platter (aka food tray)! I was so giddy-happy at this discovery, that I couldn't stop smiling all throughout my meal. I even had some reserved, in case lunch would turn out to be 'meaty' again (which it was).
I think it's really so cool how God shows His love to us in many different ways -- and I totally love His AWESOME sense of humor!
But I didn't really complain -- after all, I am on this fast for a purpose. I just found other ways to make sure I got food in my tummy: for breakfast, I had "butter asukal" (our nickname for bread with butter & sugar); for lunch, I had crab & corn soup with rice; for dinner, I put the sauce of the meat dish on my rice for flavor and ate the side veggies that came with it. :-)
The next morning, God had a very unexpected surprise for me! At breakfast, I was happy to see that there was daing na bangus (salted and dried milkfish) on the buffet table. I also saw some hotdogs and I think tocino or longganisa (I don't remember), but of course, I just skipped over those and proceeded to get myself some suka (vinegar). I was happily eating my fish when the big surprise came -- one of my tablemates said that the hotdogs were actually made out of TUNA.
"Tuna hotdogs???" I thought incredulously. I'd never heard of them before! (haha, I obviously don't watch much TV!) I thought that maybe my friends heard the food servers wrong. So I went back to the buffet table to ask them myself. And they confirmed that indeed, it was a Tuna hotdog!
I think it's really so cool how God shows His love to us in many different ways -- and I totally love His AWESOME sense of humor!
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