I guess I should apologize to those of you that may have been keeping up with my daily Proverbs. I just totally got behind planning and attending one of the greatest trips ever (coming soon to a blog near you) and then planning and attending a stupid hurricane.
Well this evening I am writing to you in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. She has pretty much blown out of town and left behind a lot of water, a lot of leaves on the ground, and a significant bunch of road debris. Thankfully, she didn't do what the predictions said she would and so much of the expected damage never occurred.
One thing did occur that was totally expected. I read on Facebook, Twitter, and text messages of how friends and family were "preparing" for the storm by cooking an abundance of food. I am pretty sure as I watched my wife I began to see the connection. First of all, cooking is a great past-time. It takes your mind off of what is going on outside. You seem to feel like you're getting one over on Sandy if you can still use electricity to prepare several great meals. "We are not going to give in to your threats. You're not gonna make us eat raw hot dogs and cold canned beans." And then when you look at what I saw being cooked, roast beef and mashed potatoes, beef stew, biscuits and gravy, chocolate chip cookies, homemade chicken noodle soup, you pick up on the theme of comfort foods. Cooking them is one comfort, but eating them is a whole different level of comfort.
Well, like I said, the storm blew out and I got to experience a wonderful illustration of how the Lord works so many times in our life. There wasn't really a rainbow that I saw, but figuratively at the end of a storm there is a rainbow and at the end of the rainbow there is a reported pot of gold. For me and my family that pot, instead, was full of Comforting Chicken Noodle soup at Nana's house, along with warm bread, salad she had made, and fresh homemade pumpkin bread. Truthfully, God does seem to bless abundantly after each storm we go through, but as I looked at this evening and considered the threat this super-storm posed on all of us and our homes, a pot of gold could not have held a candle to this meal made with love, with all of us safely gathered around the table. What a blessed Perspective.
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