Food is love

It’s a new year. 2010, are we supposed to say, “0-10” now? Or just “10” ? I’m confused, are you? Either way I can’t believe that ten years ago I was sixteen and my parents thought that when the clock struck midnight on Jan 1, 2000 the earth would end. I can vaugly remember my mom and dad filling all the recepticles in my house with water, just to make sure we didn’t die when the system went.

In the last decade I have gained and lost forty pounds, changed my diet from crash- no carb disaster, to just regular healthy dude. I have went through kicks where I wasn’t sure what life was bringing me. I have seen God’s work in my life, I met and married the love of my life, been to every continent ( excluding Antarctica) and made five full lenght records and one ep.

This year I will eat healthier, I will serve God, my wife and my friends. I will strive to be transparent and honest, true and real.

I encourage you this year if you are making a ” food- based” change. Diets do not work! The water, oatmeal cookie, la supermodel, cayenne pepper, meat only, vege only diets don’t work. They make you crave. They make you insane.

What does work is a life style change. Eating balanced. Trading out that cake for fruit, trading out those greasy fries for a salad, and maybe eating eggs for breakfast instead of chocolate cereal.

What’s your resolution?

There is a seriously massive array of things you could be eating today. Are you a grazer? do you eat little nibbles of holiday treats all through out the day? Are you a binger like myself? do you save that hunger, then proceed to eat massive amounts of turkey, ham, and all the nutmeg and spice laden treats?

This holiday is epic for food, i know for some of you, your mother and/or any different combo of loved ones has been slaving away at cookies all day and night for the last week. Some if you may be like my family and make baskets out of all the treats you labor over, giving them away to loved ones to taste the fruits of your labor.

Either way, if your a grazer, a binger, a baker, or even just a sit back and watch the Christmas-storyer, from my family to yours, Merry Christmas. You are loved today, you are someone today. Even when all the signs pointing to you say you are not. You are.

aaron gillespie

read Luke chapter 2

Whatever you are eating, and wherever you are eating it. I want you to know your loved. Life can throw rough stuff at us, it can throw wonderful things at us. This season is hard for alot of people, no matter where you are tonight, you have a purpose. Jesus loves you. I get that It can be hard to believe and hard to buy into, but I know it’s real.

Be blessed, eat a wad of turkey for me, or is it ham on Christmas?

I’m currently in route to the best food city in America. New Orleans, got any suggestions?

Where’s your favourite po-boy? Where’s the best gumbo? Most epic oyster spot?

Lemme hear it! Who knows your spot might be in the blogosphere!