Lynne's Story | Simply Eat

I just felt totally, utterly loved0And I had never had that feeling in synagogue0My name is Lynne0This is my story of food and faith"0Well I was 40, and I was in the synagogue, and every time they opened the arc to bring out the scrolls, people stood up and then when it was finished they sat down0And suddenly it just all became meaningless, and I said, "God, there has to be something more "to a relationship with you than this "and I want it"0 I was getting ready for the Passover, where we take everything that is leaven out of our house and we prepare a special meal"0And the phone rang, and it was the estate agent to tell me, "we're terribly sorry, the woman has taken the house off the market0 And I called out, "God, if you're there, I really need you"0 Because I had nowhere to go, but I had to leave my house within six weeks0And I just heard a voice say to me, "what have you just done0 And I was terrified because there was no one there"0And the voice said, "I asked you a question"0What have you just done"0 And I said, "I've just changed the house over for Passover"0 And the voice said, "what is the Passover"0 And I said, "it's when God"0 and I realised who I was talking to, and I said, "it was when You led the Israelites "out of Egypt0 And He said, "well, why don't you put your faith in me the same way as your ancestors did0 And that was at a Passover meal, and of course then I didn't realise He was the Passover lamb that takes away the sin of the world0It was only when I became a believer, and the whole of the Passover made sense, because He fulfilled every single aspect of the Passover, down to the last detail0The first time I walked into the Iranian church, I never thought I'd be accepted0But in a strange way, I had never really felt fully accepted with my own people0I was welcomed with open arms"0I just felt so much part of the family0And one day, as I was sitting looking around at my new friends, having a real family, god said, "now you know why I never let you fit in before0 What's amazing for me is now that I'm Christian, I'm not just with Jewish people0In our church, there are 30 different nationalities0So when we come together for a celebration, everyone brings traditional food0And it is just so wonderful, that sense of belonging0So faith and food to me just go hand in hand