Taste and See...


If you’ve been following my posts this week, you know that I am in Hilton Head, South Carolina. And, although we have been thoroughly enjoying our time there, yesterday we took a planned trip to Savannah, Georgia so we could participate in the “Taste of Savannah” walking tour.

As part of the tour, we got to sample local foods from some of the city’s restaurants.  We had shrimp and grits, she-crab soup, a flaky roll made with pastry crust and sausage, a biscuit with pimento cheese and fried green tomatoes, a chicken empanada with a garlic and cilantro sauce, mojitos, and sweet tupelo honey.  Then, as if we hadn’t eaten quite enough, following the tour we stopped at a place for happy hour and 75 cent oysters…

EVERY SINGLE THING we ate was delicious.  The combinations of flavors and the presentation of each “bite” a foodie like me – was fantastic.  More than once I think I remarked that I felt like the rat REMY, in the Disney movie Ratatouille!

As we made our way through the city, we stopped at the J.W. Marriott hotel on the waterfront.  And, while the other parts of the tour were a feast for my stomach – the interior of the hotel was a feast for my eyes.  The hotel was originally a power plant for the city, however it had been transformed into a beautiful riverside retreat.  The lobby area was magnificent.  On all sides, walls were decorated with huge slabs of translucent marble, which – when lit from the back, illuminated the natural beauty of the stones.  There were also gigantic geodes, once seemingly “plain dull rocks” which had been cracked open to reveal stunning interiors of amethyst, and citrine. 

The friend we are traveling with remarked, “isn’t it just like God to put something so beautiful inside a rock?” And I smiled and thought, “Yes – that IS just like God.  He puts the beauty inside, and then waits to see if it is ever fully revealed… 

Once we were back at the condo in Hilton Head, a communion song I used to sing when I attended the Catholic Church kept running through my head, “Taste and see, taste and see, the goodness of the Lord”.  Its basis is found in Psalm 34:8 – Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.   

The Lord is SOOOO GOOD, and now that I am truly beginning to know Him, I feel like a geode that has finally been cracked open, or the combination of flavors in the food we ate.  Blessed, beautiful, rich (in all things that truly matter), and full.

My hope is for those who do not know Him yet.  Taste and see...


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