I’ve posted the second installment in a series I’m calling Scriptural Lessons from the Natural World at Out of the Ordinary.
My husband loved to take our children fishing, so they’ve understood since they were very young that when we eat fish, we’re eating something that was, not long ago, a living, breathing creature. My youngest son went bison hunting with his school class when he was 12 or so. They got their bison, helped butcher it, and served it fresh as bison burgers at a community feast. These children knew from experience that burgers don’t come from a fast food joint—ultimately, anyway—but from living animals killed so we can eat burgers made from their flesh.
Read all of Living Things Die So You Can Live.