 | Themes
 | Healing (Mark 1:29-39)
 | The 1987 movie "Tampopo" is about the search for the
perfect noodle, and features lots of loosely
connected stories about the power of food and
eating. In one vignette, a father mourns as his wife lies dying, asking
how he and their son will survive if she dies.
As she clearly breathes her last (turning a
ghastly pale blue-white) the father and son sob and beg her to
arise, and COOK! The wife sits up slowly, prepares one final meal,
and then expires in peace.
Ever since I saw that, I cannot help but connect the scene of Jesus
healing Peter's mother-in-law (Mark 1:29-39;
also in Matthew and Luke) since the first thing
she does when he revives her is start serving everyone in the
house. (The Rev. Mary Beth Rivetti) |
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