The Healing Soup Kitchen
Shields, Edward
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AbeBooks Seller since 7 April 2005
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Quantity: Over 20 available
Add to basketNew Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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Grace Martinez thought managing St. Michael's church soup kitchen would involve serving meals, helping the hungry, and occasionally dealing with broken equipment. She never expected the kitchen itself to develop supernatural powers, much less Broadway-worthy theatrical ambitions that would make professional choreographers weep with envy. Set in the basement of a modest church, "The Kitchen Chronicles" follows Grace as she discovers that their humble soup kitchen possesses ancient divine gifts that transform simple meals into miraculous healing experiences. When the cooking equipment develops personalities and an unfortunate obsession with interpretive dance, Grace must learn to navigate a world where hope is served hot, love multiplies like loaves and fishes, and the silverware insists on performing elaborate musical numbers during dinner service. With help from an eccentric team including Tommy (a teenager who accidentally teaches dinner rolls to levitate), Rita (whose off-key hymns somehow coordinate kitchen choreography), and Mr. Chen (a dignified chef constantly embarrassed by his waltzing woks), Grace creates a sanctuary where food serves as medicine for both body and soul, even if that medicine occasionally comes with backup dancers and a full orchestra of enthusiastic pots and pans. But as their reputation grows, so does unwanted attention from corporate interests who want to commercialize their miracles, government agents investigating their "unusual activities," and health inspectors confused by reports of flying food and therapeutic coffee makers. Grace must learn to protect not just the kitchen's supernatural abilities, but the community it has built-a found family of volunteers, regulars, and, yes, dramatically inclined kitchen equipment that believes every meal service is an opportunity for artistic expression. Through twenty chapters of miraculous meals, kitchen implement uprisings, underground dinner networks, and enough floating food to supply a culinary circus, Grace discovers that the real magic isn't in the supernatural abilities of their kitchen, but in the connections it helps forge between broken people finding their way back to hope, healing, and community-one carefully prepared meal at a time. Perfect for readers who enjoy contemporary spiritual fiction with humor, stories about found family and community building, or anyone who's ever suspected their kitchen appliances might have secret lives involving rehearsals, artistic ambitions, and possibly their own social media accounts.
My name is Edward Shields grew up in a small town in Southeast Ohio. Received a degree in Electronics and had jobs in the medical equipment service. I retired from a local hospital in 2025.
With my loving wife, Kathy, for fifty years, she has supported my jobs and now my hobbies of: electronics, assembling jigsaw puzzles, and writing books.
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