MENU: CHICKEN & BISCUITS: Succulent chunks of chicken, swimming in a rich, creamy sauce with fresh herbs, onions, garlic, carrots and peas. Served with flaky buttermilk biscuits (Contains Gluten, Dairy and Eggs) (Contains Gluten, Dairy and Eggs)
Individual Meals are portions adequate for one adult.
Family Packs are portions adequate for two adults and three kids.
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By registering for a ticket, you are agreeing to pick up a meal on the designated date between 4pm-4:30pm at McLane Church - Edinboro. Meals served chilled and safely packed in to-go containers. We only prepare meals for those who have registered.
Micah's Note
This week's meal is definitely one for the cool of the evening. After a hard day's work in the heat of the summer sun you pop your chicken and biscuits in the oven and go take a very cold shower. Afterward you and your family gather around the picnic table in your front yard. The hot afternoon air has been blown away by a cool evening breeze. The bright orange of the setting sun peeks through the vibrant green leaves of the trees just ahead. Somewhere out of sight, birds are calling, singing and chirping. Your spoon cuts off a piece of your flaky buttermilk biscuit and scoops up some of that rich cream infused with essence of chicken. A succulent, just chewy enough, piece of chicken has hitched a ride along with some carrot, green peas, golden corn and flecks of fresh rosemary, thyme and sage. Your children and dear friends do the same as stories of courageous bravery or acts of sacrificial kindness are told, the deep and searching questions of our day are discussed with logic, empathy and understanding.
This is the dinner of advertisements. “Buy our meals and experience the perfect life.” Mark Sayers calls this "the ethos of secular salvation". Salvation, perfection, "your best life" can be achieved through buying, consuming and life hacking. Only in the real-world biscuits fall on the floor. Kids lick ice cream off trash can lids at Waldameer. Dads get angry. And politics are almost never discussed with logic, empathy and understanding. Into the mess of real life, the Son of God entered. Mary had birth pains. Joseph was not the perfect father. Jesus' birth was just as messy as yours and mine. Into the mess of a life destroyed by bad choices Jesus offers the satisfaction of living water. We long for perfection, the ideal but no matter how hard we work it always seems just out of reach. C. S. Lewis said, “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
Jesus was born in a real barn, with real animals and laid in real hay. He lived a real life, with real hardship, real annoyances and real joy. He was beaten with real rods, whipped with real whips, carried a real cross, executed with real nails, laid in a real grave and rose with real scars. Jesus does not offer a life of easy comfort but tells us we will have trouble. But he sandwiches this trouble with “have peace in me” and “take heart, because I have overcome the world.” The dream of getting every detail perfect in this life, is just that, a dream. We will never realize it here. God gave us that dream to draw us to him.