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THE PARABLE OF MY TURKEY WRAP!! 12/11/07
My son taught me how to make chicken wrap sandwiches in
a way that keeps the tortilla chewy, soft and moist
without getting slimy wet or breaking apart. It is to
spread a thin layer of cream cheese on the tortilla and
then wrapping the whole tortilla sandwich in saran wrap
and leaving it over night in the fridge for the moisture
to soften and change the texture of the tortilla. I
was impressed with his and so I thought I would give it
a try.
I had sliced turkey, Alpine lace cheese, and Wayne’s
leftover mixed salad without dressing, so I thought that
might be a good base for the sandwich with the cream
cheese. I found some Dijon mustard and was thinking
about adding some bread and butter pickles for a touch
of sweet.
After I added the Dijon mustard, I was thinking about
the sweet idea of the pickles and then changed streams
in mid sentence, only I forgot to tell my brain that.
Yesterday Wayne and I went out to lunch and he had a
turkey meal with a touch of cranberry. I thought it
might be interesting to try one bite of cranberry on my
German potato pancake, since they served it with
applesauce and sour cream. They seem to like sweet with
sour and I liked that.
So while making this turkey wrap I suddenly thought
about how good turkey is with a hint of cranberries, and
I had raspberry cream cheese that might make a good
substitute. So I put some raspberry cream cheese around
the blanks spots of the tortilla, and totally forgot I
had put the Dijon mustard on top of the meat, still
hiding under the lettuce!!!!!!!
I took a couple bites and Yeeeeeeeeeowe, what a
surprise. This had to be the weirdest, most terrible
sandwich I ever had in my life! I could not imagine
what was wrong with it when suddenly I remembered the
mustard. You have got to be kidding me, I am eating
Dijon mustard and raspberry cream cheese together! It
was really bad.
I am not about to throw the whole thing down the drain
because I didnt have enough turkey to make another
one. So I am laughing with each bite, and making
squinty faces in between. Wayne is sitting next to me
eating turkey and alpine lace cheese on a plain cinnamon
raisin bagel. He made his based on the same idea of
cranberries and turkey and said it tasted pretty good.
Sometimes the Lord throws us some strange curves in life
just to break our mindsets about our opinions and how we
think. Yesterday and all the days before, I would have
never tried Wayne’s turkey and swiss cheese on a
cinnamon raisin bagel. Today it sounds like a cool
idea, after my over-the-wall Dijon mustard and raspberry
cream cheese!
I have found that sometimes the Lord allows things in my
life that I find distasteful to my mindset. They may be
tough to chew and not pleasant texture to my thinking.
He might set it apart for a while and then come back to
it later. Then when the same is offered to a lesser
degree, I am more open to it, having been stretched
before.
Like for instance I may go through a season of not
hearing Him very much, and then when He speaks again I
am much more open to hearing what He says, because I
have changed my opinions that hearing Him is better than
nothing at all.
Tonight when dropping off our grandson, we were told he
needed to get some vegies down as he was now refusing to
eat them. When it came time to feed him, it became very
evident after a couple tries, that vegies were now on
the BAD STUFF list. So Papa Wayne had a spoon full of
vegies and Grammy Sandy had a tiny piece of bread and
jam. We found that if I offered the tiny piece of
bread, he would open his mouth for that, and Papa would
slip the vegies in on a side swipe! When we told the
kids when they came to pick up our grandson, they
laughed and said they do the very same thing!
Isa 30:19-21 NKJV
For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; You
shall weep no more. He will be very gracious to you at
the sound of your cry; When He hears it, He will answer
you. 20 And though the Lord gives you the bread of
adversity and the water of affliction, Yet your teachers
will not be moved into a corner anymore, but your eyes
shall see your teachers. 21 Your ears shall hear a word
behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it,"
Whenever you turn to the right hand or whenever you
turn to the left.
WORD TO PONDER: SWEET AND SOUR, SALT AND SUGAR
12/11/07
Beloved sometimes you are so set in your ways that we
come to a stand still until you are willing to hear what
I AM speaking into your life. I have many ways of
getting you to chew and swallow strong food so it is not
a problem to Me. However I would like you to understand
that sometimes I take you the long way around an issue
simply because you are unwilling to receive it any other
way. I may mix something sweet with sour circumstances,
and perhaps bring you through a salty dry time of thirst
for Me while at the same time I say something sweet that
appeases you enough to seek Me in a different way. Try
being more flexible in your boundaries of listening
skills and things may change more pleasantly.
Ps 63:1-2 NKJV
O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul
thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You in a dry and
thirsty land where there is no water. So I have looked
for You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your
glory. |
