Parable of my Turkey Wrap

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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 overnight 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.

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!

Sometimes the Lord takes us through strange things just to change our mind about how we are thinking.  He might give you a pretend mustard and jam sandwich so that you will learn to be grateful and not complain about all the other sandwiches you eat!

Php 2:14-15 NLT  Do everything without complaining and arguing,  so that no one can criticize you. Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people.