Taste as spiritual

For more than three (3) weeks, I'd been unable to taste anything: one of the symptoms of so-called flu. Everything I ate was dull and taseteless. Thus, the daily rendezvouz with lechon kawali and monggos at "jolliback" became a dry routine. And during our Offline Support GA last June 18, 2011 at Convergys-Banawa where there was abundant supply of pancit, lechon manok and super crispy pork lechon, I enjoyed more the company of my coworkers than the food.

I'm proud that I haven't been absent from work during this entire experience. But in my haste to get well, I resorted to materia medica to find immediate healing. But healing did not come although the prescriptions were religiously followed.

A learning was slowly evolving during this experience. Without this experience, I wouldn't have been able to realize that we don't need super tasty food to survive or at least to enjoy life. During this time I've been able to eat anything. I ate vegetable and lutong-bahay in abundance. Simple food satisfied my hunger. And the super cold carbonated soft drinks did not provide the refreshment it promised. Although there were times that the symptoms bothered a bit, I've been able to work normally most of the times.

I'm ok now after two-days of vacation leave and lots of spiritual reading. A portion of this week's Christian Science Bible Lesson on "Life" summarized the lesson I learned during this experience: "Science inevitably lifts one’s being higher in the scale of harmony and happiness . . . Higher enjoyments alone can satisfy the cravings of immortal man. We cannot circumscribe happiness within the limits of personal sense. The senses confer no real enjoyment." (Page 60: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy).

Further further reading:
- Spirituality.com
- Christianscience.com