1706 My Strength Is My Story with Melissa d'Arabian

What if food could be more for you than simply fuel for
your body? Melissa d'Arabian shares her journey with food and how
it's an invitation from God; tasting grace!

Melissa d'Arabian: A wife of 16 years and mother to their four
beautiful girls, which includes one set of twins.


She is a speaker, writer, television host, and celebrity chef.
After winning season five of "The Next Food Network Star" in
August 2009, Melissa premiered her inaugural cooking show, "Ten
Dollar Dinners".


She went on to be a New York Times Best-Selling Author with her
first cookbook "Ten Dollar Dinners: 140 Recipes and Tips to
Elevate Simple, Fresh Meals Any Night of the Week", which debuted
in August 2012.


Melissa then followed up with her second cookbook in December of
2014 --- "Supermarket Healthy: Recipes and Know-How for Eating
Well without Spending A Lot".


And now she is celebrating her third book, "Tasting Grace:
Discovering the Power of Food to Connect Us to God, One Another,
and Ourselves".
"Tasting Grace is the book that nobody asked me to
write. Nobody except me and God.” ~ Melissa d'Arabian

 
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BOOK: Tasting Grace

Enjoy the multitude of topics discussed including motherhood,
poverty, redemption, suicide, body image, cooking, plus so much
more.


Connection

Introvert

Motherhood

Faith journey

Spiritual winter

Gift of joy

The next big thing

Identity

The performer

Story

Invitations with food

Poverty & Food

Mom's death

Why me? Why this book?

Redemption

Sorrow

The Delta salad

Not enough

Generosity

Body image

Prayer

Worship

The bridge

Show up

What's for dinner?

Multi-tasking

Grace

Mindy

Cancer

Legacy



 
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"We are, through food, given a glimpse into so much of
the mystery and wonder and vastness and expansiveness of God." ~
Melissa d'Arabian

#MyStrengthIsMyStory #CreateYourNow #MelissadArabian


 


Quotes and statements within the interview:


"What brings me joy more than anything else is connection."


"Being a mom of four girls has just been such an honor. I can't
believe God let me do that."
"My faith journey has changed. And it's had events or
turning points which is much like my food journey."

"The spiritual winter after my mom's death really came from my
inability to reconcile her suicide."


"But in her death, I really learned how to have joy without being
happy."
"And that gift, understanding that joy really is an
inside job. And for me it's a job about me and God."

"I love story, because it's universal."


"It was something I wanted, I needed to learn and reconcile about
food culture versus what God wanted be to feel and think about
food."


"A lot of the stuff that I felt yucky about with food, I realize
I was creating and society was creating and God wasn't. And God
was inviting me into such goodness."
"The good news is the joy is big enough to house the
sorrow."

"Every meal has the ability to invite us into a bunch of these
invitations and has the ability to draw us closer to God."


"When you don't have enough of something, that shapes how you
look at food."


"God's invitations aren't separated out in outline form."
"For those slippery slope zones, I literally just pray
before I workout, because I need to keep my motives pure."

"I look back at my life, and I cannot find one instance in
earnest where God really dropped me."


"So much of life is just showing up."
"It doesn't have to be perfect; it really doesn't. We
just have to show up." 

 


What has your story gifted you?


Being closer to God



"My story with loss, yucky, good, bad, good decisions, bad
decisions, things working out, some things not working out ---
all of that has been my story. All of that has just sucked me
right on up into being close to God."


"So for that if it took that story to get me closer to God, then
I love my story."


 


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BOOK: Tasting Grace


Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darabianmelissa/


Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melissadarabian/


Twitter: https://twitter.com/MelissadArabian



 
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