Chili Sauce and Coconut Milk: a Comingled Life of Holy

Posted On Jun 29, 2020 By admin With Comments Off

Recently I had a praying for Thai Peanut Soup. I had all the ingredients in the shed, so I set about to establish myself a huge, steaming bowl.

I could not but help to notice the ingredients and how they are reflecting my life right now and perhaps yours in our accentuated restricts. Here i am deep rich spiciness as from the Thai spices and chilis. But there is also soothing, peaches-and-cream peanut butter and coconut milk. The one would be too much to manage and the other perhaps very dull to much enjoy.

We create our ecstasy and we make our peacefulnes. And when we choose anesthetizing addictions we dull the lamp as well as the darkness.

Ecstasy comes from a Greek word which can easily mean “insane.” But then it was used often by 17 th century esoteric church novelists for” a country of rapture that stupefied their own bodies while the person entertained discern things ,” furthering the part between body and soul.

I wonder what it would take to bring together the see, her being and the body; the stuff of heaven and the stuff of earth. And I further wonder why we must choose?

As the Church is crushed by a withering following, she is beginning to show signs of stress not unlike those we are all feeling in our COVID lock-down. “What happens if things convert? ” “What will happen if our religiou has no money? ” “What will happen if we lose our dwelling? ” “What would I do if I were not a priest? ” “Who would pay me, a Bishop, if the church’s investments crumble at the end of the Boomer Generation? ”( and the will …)

As with the first Fall of Rome, the church will turn its fury and exasperation in on itself just as the Senators began assassinating each other while the Visigoths approached the barriers and the peasants fled churches into freedom’s pastures. When Bishops turn clergy against each other, we have reached a peak not only of cowardice, but of collapse.

We yearly and obediently set aside Holy Week to status the nails driven into Jesus’ entrusts and more we drive those very same nails into each others’ entrusts all the time while dulling our aches with feeling rather than ecstasy. Excitement is an intoxicant- an anesthesia. It is ecstasy’s ugly step-sister.

As I desegregated the deep red curry petroleums into the tan peanut butter, I wondered when will come a day when the person or persons of God simply embrace the ecstasy and the quietnes; both. When will we stop confounding glamor and perfection? When will we leave the excitement and the glamor to die their natural, inauthentic demises; slowly beginning to swirl the armistice and ecstasy the mode one whirls the chili petroleum and the coconut milk in a Thai Peanut Soup?

“He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of conciliation; I missed all to sparkle and dance in a splendid jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.”

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

Recently, I had a desiring for Thai Peanut Soup. I had all the ingredients in the shed so here is how I make it…

Heat 2 tablespoons butter or sesame petroleum.( Use chili oil if you like it hot- but don’t gave it inhale- it hurts !)

Add to the heated oil

2 stalkings celery, minced or chopped

1 small-scale onion, minced or chopped

1 teaspoon minced garlic

Simmer on medium-high two minutes until onions are translucent but not browned. Add and stir quickly

2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

When the paste is well-cooked( one minute) but not browned add

2 tablespoons of Thai curry paste( or 2 tablespoons curry powder

1/ 4 teaspoon red pepper)- stir well.

Add 😛 TAGEND

1 (8 ounce) can chicken or vegetable broth

1 can coconut milk

1 goblet crunchy peanut butter

Simmer 20 minutes.

Here above in the photo of mine last-place night and served in one of my own home-made containers uttered with a turquoise reduction coat, I have garnished the soup with wasabi peas, sugared ginger, and chopped Thai peppers. Hot. Crunch. Smooth. Sweet. Sensual. Holy. Heaven. As good as any collect.

Charles LaFond is an Episcopal priest, columnist, orator, potter, and fundraiser living on the faces of an island in the Salish Sea. He writes The Daily Sip( thedailysip.org ); which is neither.

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