My son is working out and paying attention to his diet. One day he showed me a salad he was eating for lunch. He said it was all protein: chicken, bacon, cheese, spinach…spinach?

He said, “Sure, you know like Popeye, the sailor man!”

When you want to build your strength, you eat meat!

Hebrews 5:14, “But solid food is for full grown men, for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is morally good and noble and what is evil and contrary either to divine or human law.”

“The solid meat, or food, is not absolutely necessary for preserving life, but is so for acquiring greater strength…Even strong men partake of milk, but do not make milk their chief, much less their sole, diet.” Critical and Explanatory Commentary, Vol. II

Today I learned something I thought was disgusting was not what I thought at all.

2 Kings 6:23, “And a great famine came to Samaria. They besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver and a fourth of a kab of dove’s dung [a wild vegetable] for five shekels of silver.”

“Dove’s dung is thought by Bochart to be a kind of pulse or pea, common in Judea, and still kept in the store-houses of Cairo and Damascus, and other places, for the use of it by pilgrim caravans; by Linneus, and other botanist, it is said to be the root or white bulb of the plant Ornithogalum umbellatum, Star of Bethlehem.” Critical and Explanatory Commentary, Vol. I

I may try to eat “Dove’s Dung”, but I still plan to avoid “Rocky Mountain Oysters.”