CTLP Episode 134- An Invitation to God’s Feast with Melissa d’Arabian
Live Well Anyway
MacKenzie Koppa
4.6 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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This week’s episode of CTL is brought to you by Away Travel. Use promo code LOVELY when you order from AwayTravel.com/LOVELY20for $20 Offan Away Suitcase. Show Notes- This week on Cultivating the Lovely, MacKenzie Koppa interviews Melissa d'Arabian, author of Tasting Grace: Discovering the Power of Food to Connect Us to God, One Another, and Ourselves. Melissa has been a Food Network host and has written numerous columns and articles on food, in addition to being a wife and mother. In today's episode MacKenzie and Melissa chat about all things food and faith, including:- Melissa shares a little of her own journey of seeking God's heart in the area of food
- How Melissa came to realize God's use of food to draw her and others closer to Himself
- Learning to see the significance of food as a picture in God's kingdom story
- Getting in touch with the creative nature of God through exercising our own creativity
- How Melissa stayed sane during the Food Network Star filming and competition
- Cultivating an attitude of faith amidst the unexpected in our every day
- Learning the lesson of patience from food and taking it into our lives
- Melissa's experience in France and how that shifted her perspective on food
- Getting back in touch with the gift that food is by growing something yourself
- Melissa's mindset in using her own competitive advantage on Food Network
- The benefits of training in improvisation
- A typical day in Melissa's life
Melissa: making her drive time more lovely by connecting with her daughter and listening to podcasts
MacKenzie: decorating her car interior for fall to make her drive time a little more fun
Resources Mentioned- Books: Podcasts:For the Love with Jen Hatmaker
Goal Digger with Jenna Kutcher
Rise Together with Rachel Hollis
Movies: Find Melissa-You can find Melissa on her website, melissadarabian.net. You can also follow her on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterestand Twitter.
Find MacKenzie-You can find MacKenzie Koppa on Instagram, Facebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! You can also listen to her family-friendly podcast The Same Page!
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| 0:00.0 | So I knew that God was not treating food as an afterthought, that it was a deliberate system of feeding us. |
| 0:06.6 | And I suspected that he made food delicious for a reason. |
| 0:11.0 | And throughout that, I started to realize, oh, wow, God uses food to bring us closer into him. |
| 0:31.7 | Welcome to cultivating the lovely. |
| 0:33.4 | I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. |
| 0:36.3 | And around here, we know that life is hard and we have to do everything we can to just make it a little bit more lovely. |
| 0:40.2 | So it's my mission to bring you great conversations, practical tools and information, and a healthy dose of community to help make those things happen. |
| 0:47.9 | If you want to find out more, you can go to our website at cultivating thelovely.com. Visit our amazing membership community at patreon.com slash |
| 0:54.9 | cultivating the lovely or by connecting with me on Instagram, which is one of my favorite |
| 0:59.1 | places to interact with all of you. You can find me at McKenzie Kappa. Thanks so much for joining |
| 1:03.9 | me today. Ladies, today I have a fun interview with someone that I instantly said yes to without even |
| 1:12.4 | knowing what the project was, and it's Melissa D. Arabian. Now, you might not be familiar |
| 1:18.0 | with who she is, but I watched her season of Next Food Network Star, absolutely loved it, felt in |
| 1:24.2 | love with her and her mission, and getting to read her book and hear what is |
| 1:29.1 | behind her and all the preparation that she had that really made her the favorite for Food |
| 1:34.9 | Network Star. It was so interesting, and I absolutely love getting that behind the scenes |
| 1:39.3 | look at something, you know, but this book is so much more than that that she has recently written. It's called |
| 1:44.7 | tasting grace and it's about the holiness of food in our lives, but it's not just some upity |
| 1:50.8 | nonfiction holiness and food kind of book. It's a memoir-esque style book that I have so enjoyed. |
| 1:57.7 | It has given me so much food for thought. Look how punny I am. But truly, it's made me think |
| 2:04.0 | about my career in different ways and all sorts of things that I wasn't expecting from this book. |
| 2:08.9 | And I think you guys are going to get this same kind of feel from this interview. It was so |
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