Better eat your veggies!🥦🌽🥒🫑🥔

“Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred.”

There is something quite beautiful and meaningful. About sitting at the table. Sharing life, sharing stories. And one does not even have to be a good or even great cook.🙂

Sometimes in life, the process can be the punishment. We have choices. We do not always choose the most loving option. We blame it on youth or ignorance. We go ahead and “do it” anyway.

We should stop, look and listen to what we are doing. At what?

Wonder and love at the process of cooking up a meal best served with love. We all make haste sometimes, rush to prepare, stir, sauté, and soup far too quickly.

If we are not careful, the preparation causes everything to go down in one big lump. Our words, deeds, and actions may have that effect on another. Although it may not have been the intention.

“A hot-tempered man stirs up dissension, but a patient man calms a quarrel.”

Cage free.

”Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed”.

Translation?: “Too many cooks in the kitchen?”

Maybe. Maybe not.

Consider this perspective. On the one hand, it may depend on what one is trying to achieve. And the level of trust one places in a person, in a moment in time.

That is one of the reasons trust is so important. Because before we know it, we find ourselves grasping. For the truth. Whether we realize it, whether we listen to the little voice in our head, whether we just give up because the pain overtakes any sense of reason.

I would say,

”Call in the advisers”.

For sure.

But don’t let go of your values.

It is possible to obtain both trust and love.

Without letting go of one to obtain the other.

But ya gotta be ready for a messy kitchen in the meantime☺️.

”A man finds joy in giving an apt reply—-and how good is a timely word!

Timing is everything?

Timing is not always everything.

Consider this perspective. When beaten down due to opportunities presented, opportunities lost, opportunities created, there is a level of exhaustion and fatigue. An in-ability to boil the pot of water even. Lift the fork to one’s own mouth.

Chew even.

We think it is our “ turn” to be served. And that can be both good and bad. We may have been so caught up in our life narrative of proving we we so right, we forgot to consult our inner noodle.🫵🏻

We have failed to weigh the best option in our mind Lord. Forgive me. We forget to:

Weigh in our mind what the best action and reaction may have been to the person we love standing right in front of us. We were tired. We were sad. We thought they did not understand and we felt taken advantage of because we were hungry for,

Truth.

“The heart of the righteous weighs its answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes evil”.

Yuck. That does not sound like soup I care to gulp or gush. I don’t wanna be mean. Do you wanna be mean? I didn’t think so. But I did not know for certain. How not to be.

Choose your words, deeds and actions carefully because you may have to eat them😳. And if you cannot eat what you may be serving another, perhaps it may be best to re think your kitchen “strategy”.

A kitchen to be shared in love is a kitchen to be shared in life. Slicing, dicing and spinning the best of self to be shared with another, with others.

The days of the “tv tray” have been gone for awhile now.

”A cheerful look brings joy to the heart, and good news gives health to the bones.” “He who listens to a life-giving rebuke will be at home among the wise.”

Indeed.

And it will taste good. And it will taste filling. And it will taste fulfilling. The hunger for truth becomes replaced with the hunger for love. And that is usually the easy part. Most oftentimes the easy part. We just fight it tooth and nail. And.

We just fail to see it at the time. The timing. The timely minute it is served to us. We are too busy gobbling what it is front of us, forgetting to take smaller bits and mindfully digest the moment, the moments.

“He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever needs correction gains understanding.”

That is the good kind of weight we should aspire to gain.

Understanding.

The peace that passes understanding.

Crunchy, chewy, munchy or stew-y. Learning. Churning. Burning.Turning.

Towards good. Only good.

It pays to pay attention to the details.

Because oftentimes the devil is hiding somewhere in there.

Whether you choose to tempt the devil is and always will be your choice.

Your choice “du jour”. Who or whom you choose to fear may set your life’s path before you even know it. It is good to know what you are doing. No brainer, right. How?

”The fear of the Lord teaches a man wisdom, and humility comes before honor.”

That sounds like a plate of love served best. In honor. With thought and with true preparation of care. “All a man’s ways seem innocent to him, but motives are weighed by the Lord.”

Translation? Get the measuring cup of your life out? Sorta. You see. Even if and when we attempt to add a pinch more of salt, a cup more of sugar. Ask yourself: “Am I doing this for others or am I only wishing to satisfy myself, my life”?

Good question. Because it really is a walk. A walk of life. It is good to devote time to others in the interest of becoming a better person. It means even more if done in the spirit of this is for us, not this is for me.

”Better a little with righteousness, than much gain with injustice.” “In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.” (Prbs 14-17)

Man plans. God laughs.😃

If we keep our eyes wide open, are hearts too, we will not have missed the best of lessons God is trying to teach us and feed our souls. And they are the best, most delicious lessons of lifelong learning. Sometimes we just burn them in the pot of our own desperation and sadness with no clue where to turn.

Turn to Him and he will help you cook up a storm!