The way to a man's heart

"The way to a man's heart is through the stomach" is an old adage, but I'm convinced that truth rings true for males as early as infancy.  I've heard countless mothers tell how much easier it was to nurse, feed, and comfort their baby boys than it was for their baby girls.  That was certainly the case in our home.  Food has always been my boy's #1 love language.  He's quite the talker, but out of all the various things he says each day, his most frequently used phrase, hands down, is "May I have something to eat?"  He expects a continual buffet in the kitchen AND in the car.

He often talks about food and spends time pondering the digestion process.  While watching me prepare a 32 ounce steak for dinner, his facial expressions indicated serious contemplation.  He said he wanted to eat the entire steak himself and then asked, "What if my tummy got so full of food that it knocked the bones out of my legs so that I could not walk ever again?"

While eating salad later that evening, he said, "Mom, I wish I was a head of lettuce."   Alarmed, I begged him to explain why he had such an unusual wish.  "If I could be food," he explained, "then I could see and experience the entire digestion process.  How cool that would be!"

Oh dear me. Thankfully, there are videos on You Tube taken from M2A capsules that provide this visual for him.   Here's a video for him that compares the digestion of processed foods to that of whole foods.


Maybe our son's LAMBS (weekly Bible study for women and children) leaders had this truth in mind regarding the way to a boy's heart when teaching Biblical truths, i.e., issues of the heart, to the kids this past year. I did see a lot of food imagery in crafts and music.  Consider this song, for instance, which the kids sang for all the LAMBS women this past week:

Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.