Proverbs 15:17a: "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is."
I was recently privileged to help serve up a newly tried recipe of pumpkin cake cooked in a crockpot. It sounded wonderful but the hostess wasn't really pleased with her first taste of the dessert. Admittedly, looking on, it didn't look attractive, either. The first taste was a little flat. Looking back at the recipe , we remembered it was topped with caramel sauce. That did taste better, but still didn't improve the looks much. It really didn't look nice enough to serve confidently.
So, of course, we decided to do " a la mode"; in this case, using a dollup of cool whip. Drizzling the caramel sauce over both the cake and the whip, we upgraded the dessert 100%!
Our expectant men were very impressed! One commented it looked like it should be in a magazine. Another was so impressed that he thought it likely the best dessert he'd ever tasted!
With a few simple changes, we had successfully created a very pleasing recipe, both to the eye and to the taste. My thoughts soon compared all this to our lives!
Daily living often evolves into just a "so-so" presentation to those around us. It lacks the flair or luster to make it what invites others to "taste and see". We set it out for others to partake of and wonder why people aren't trying it.
Maybe we need to try "a la mode". Perhaps some dollups of smiles and little deeds of kindness would draw attention. We might could drizzle some extra patience and love over it all. I think we would begin to have people ask about our recipe. And I believe, if we get our lives so Spirit filled, they will want to taste it!
This little lesson was a challenge to me! I really hope I'm not serving up just plain old "herbs" on my plate! Sprinkling the love of God on everything I present will improve whatever I'm serving 100%. I've been thinking about what I can improve with "a la mode".
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