Imagine if you could order your food straight from heaven… You will wake up one day and you will see your lawn filled with different flavors of ice cream you could ever have. Instead of stars falling on the sky, steaks of different sizes are falling on your roof.
Manna from heaven… this must be where the movie was based from. Cloudy with a chance of meatball makes my mouth water with all the food that Flint Lockwood and his machine made. Watching it made me think that it would be nice if food would really fall from heaven. It can feed all the people in Somalia. No more kids with skinny bones, big empty eyes and flat chest that looks like their bones wants to come out from their flesh. Mothers will not have to worry on what to cook everyday or how poor families would make their meager meals enough for a group of ten.There will be enough food for everyone! Actually, in the film there is so much food to feed the whole town. But just like in the time of Moses, people were never satisfied. They want more! They want a variety of food every day. Greediness, dissatisfaction… it always the cause of the downfall of men.
Sometimes I wonder why birds and other animals survive even if no one is feeding them. The only reason I can think of is that God is the one who is feeding them. And I remember this passage from the bible:
“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? – Matthew 6:26”
God gave us everything to survive and he is still providing us everything that e need up to now. We are just too busy complaining and asking for more that we didn’t realize it. And even if we realize it all we do is just sit around and wait for the blessings to come pouring in. If everything is given to us in a silver platter we stop working. The same happen to the Mayor in the film… he gets really big from eating too much and not doing any work. God is truly wise for teaching us the value of food. If we don’t work, we don’t eat. Maybe all people should follow this philosophy instead of depending on others for their survival.
So what is the story telling us? God has not abandoned us. He still showers us Manna from heaven. It may not be in the form of food but in people like Flint. God has given each of us talent that is unique from everyone else. We all have something in us that we can contribute to the world to make our situations better. It is up to us on how to improve it and hopefully once we realized our part we will make use of it and not abuse it.
Maybe food won’t come falling down from the sky but it still good to know that God is still showering us with blessings… more than we can ever hope for.
So tomorrow’s weather forecast… CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SUN! *^_^
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