Let me tell you about a time that I was trying to solve a problem the wrong way.

I was in a short-term rental home visiting my adult children in Minnesota for 10 days,

so I had the home base where they could come and go and we could do things together,

and I could even do home cooking if I wanted to.

It was a nice arrangement.

But this one particular evening, it wasn't even meal time, and I wasn't

hungry, but I wandered into the kitchen. Have you ever done that? Can you relate? And then I found a bag of

chips. So I opened up the bag. I measured out a serving, sort of, because the serving size was 15

chips, but everybody knows broken ones don't count, right?

Then I needed something sweet to offset the salty, so I wandered back into the kitchen

and found a box of ginger cookies and took a short stack of those and walked away munching.

Next, I opened the fridge. I was in the kitchen again, and I had a wedge

of sharp cheddar cheese. Really strange combination going on here, but most of it was mindless.

When I came back in the kitchen about an hour later and just picked up the can of cashews and

opened the lid, I paused and said this to myself. Food won't

fix this. Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor.

Francie is an author, conference speaker, and teacher. She is passionate about teaching what to do with what we learn from

God's word. Now back to today's valuable study. You know what I did with that can of cashews? I put the

lid back on the can. I turned off the kitchen light and left the room. I was trying to solve a

problem that wasn't hunger, and I was trying to solve it with food, and it would never work.

Sometimes it's not what we're eating. It's what's eating us. You've heard that saying before,

I'm sure. I was trying to eat my way through grief. The trip to Minnesota

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