This will undoubtedly be my worst post ever 😀. I just wouldn’t bother buying an expensive meal. Even when I was dating my wife in my younger years, we’d check out the prices before we went for a meal, and I can never remember paying much at all. We do enjoy food, but for the most part, we enjoy meals at home. If we are eating out, we’ll go somewhere cheap, like Wetherspoon’s. I particularly like the Forty Foot in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, where you can look out at the harbour while eating lunch.
And there are at least three more around Dublin. They’re often located in historic buildings. The Silver Penny in Abbey Street, Dublin, use to be a Baptist chapel back in the 19th Century.
We used to go to Wetherspoons around the UK too. I think that the first one that we ever went to was in Camden Market back in 2012. In fact, it would be cool to travel and visit every single one of the Wetherspoons locations. Some of them are in really beautiful buildings. And if there isn’t any Wetherspoons, we generally head for McDonalds 😀. Maybe we should be more adventurous, but the times when I’ve had more expensive food at weddings and so on, I didn’t really think that it was much better than what I get in Wetherspoons.
Getting back to the Baptist chapel that became a Wetherspoons, I don’t know the historical background, but it’s not uncommon for churches to move to larger premises or to move out to the surburbs. And strangely, evangelical churches are growing in Ireland, and pubs appear to be in decline. But I see Wetherspoons as more of a restaurant. Maybe it has more of a pub atmosphere late at night. When I was young, Ireland had a reputation for heavy drinkers, and smoking was everywhere. But now it’s all changed. People are more health conscious.
Yet, I would like people to have a greater hunger for God and to be more concerned about their spiritual health.
I think of the film Babette’s Feast. I don’t know if it’s meant to be a Christian film, but’s it’s a lovely illustration of God’s grace. It’s often mentioned in Christian articles, such as this Gospel Coalition article – The Costly Grace of Feasting.
So, let’s end with a couple of hymns on the theme of hunger or thirst for God:
John 3:35
Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.”
Hibernia Gospel 
Dear Hibernia
I feel like living more to read your posts. Today’s post is one more example.
Thanks for liking my post, ‘Man’🙏❤️
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