Posts Tagged ‘ Chocolat ’

Forget the box, I want what’s inside!

Forget the box, I want what’s inside!

Early on Easter morn, just before dawn, as the chorus of birds are beginning, all over the land children rush down to the breakfast table to see how much chocolate they have conned various relatives into buying this year! Later that afternoon, cardboard and foil wrappers litter the living room floor, discarded in favour of the sweet brown delight that lurks within each one of them. Do we blame them? Well no, because we were once like that with chocolate smeared grins of satisfaction and who are we to deny the innocent pleasure in chocolate! Chocolat is such a...

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Chocolat

There is a lent course called ‘Christ and the Chocolaterie’, having not looked at it I cannot tell if what I thought while watching the film has been said before or not… But anyway, here goes. Chocolat – a beautifully acted and scripted romantic film – but also so overtly religious, how could anything useful come of it! Ignore the Catholic rhetoric, the pompous, yet frightened town Mayor controlling both priest and people and focus rather on the tempestuous chocolaterie opened just in time for lent. The devil has come to town. The words almost cry off the screen....

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  • Having our Tea

    There’s something religious in the way we sit At the tea table, a tidy family of three. You, my love, slicing the bread and butter and she, The red-cheeked tot a smear of blackberry jam, and me. Apart from the marvelous doting Of a world’s interchange with each other… there’s tea. Stupid, they say, to think of the thing as an ordinance. And yet all the elements are found to change in our hands. Because we sit and share them with each other There’s a miracle. There’s a binding of unmerited graces By the cheese, and through the apples and the milk A new creation of life is established, a true presence. And talking to each other, breaking words over food Is somehow different from customary chatting. I know perfectly well that the generations must, Of necessity, have performed this petty action. And surely their pattern has long since burrowed As part of our consciousness. The too, back beyond the epochs Is depending, turning back to the fountainhead, And listening on the connecting wires to a Voice That is at the same time food – he expresses Himself here from the beginning. All would acknowledge That the food itself is [...]

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