“My sugar cookie tastes like peanut butter!” my hubs proclaimed as he chomped on the first tastes of the new year.
We had compiled a tin of all of our favorites Christmas cookies to enjoy on our return trip from spending the holiday in Colorado. Mom made all our favorites: sugar cookies, peanut butter marble whorls, peanut bars, lemon bars…
Christmas Cookies
Yet, once thrown all into the same container and left to sit for a day or two, all of them tasted like peanut butter!
I tested for myself 8)
I’m always amazed at how God speaks to us; through His creation, His church, the magnificence of a sunset, the brilliance of poetry, and…Christmas cookies.
I’m amazed at how my resolution to quit cussing is quickly washed away when I spend an hour or two in a traffic jam.
I’m appalled at my nightmares and thoughts after I watch a few horror movies and listen to some “angry music.”
When I watch enough late night tv, I simply want to eat burgers and go shopping for the latest …whatever!—This world has its temptations and can permeate into us so easily…
Yet,when we throw ourselves in with the love of family, time with friends, more enjoyment, laughter, memory making, joy, kindness, hope and– peanut butter; we tend to be more hopeful, enjoyable, and filled with the fragrance of love and laughter—it permeates and emanates.
“O be careful little eyes what you see…
O be careful little ears what you hear…
O be careful little hands what you do…
O be careful little feet where you go…
O be careful little mouth what you say…”
Recently, a good friend of mine stated, “I’m done wasting my time on people who aren’t okay with who they are. I want to spend more time with people who are at ease and know who they are!”
I get it. Those people can permeate into us and make us feel … well, we can feel less, feel guilt, and not feel okay.
Yet, sometimes these people are our co-workers, our friends, our family. So…what then?
I think God asks us to be the fragrance of change. Be the fragrance of forgiveness. Be the hope of things being okay.
He asks us to be the peanut butter.
May your 2016 be filled with the fragrances of gentleness, gratitude, hope, kindness and Christmas cookies.
juleseddy1 