Volume 6, Issue 5, January 1997

THE BEWILDERING MIXTURE

As the farmer was gratefully gathering in a bumper crop of cherries and canning them for the winter ahead, they were discovered to have a resident maggot. To remove all these undesired inhabitants before the canning process would have been time consuming.

So all the cherries were prepared just as they were, with the cheerful comment that since the maggots had been feeding exclusively on cherry, they were little more than cherry themselves.

A realistic spirit of gratitude always has to include the maggots along with the cherries. However many of them there may be, a great deal of thankfulness is still important.

This larger view of the whole is redeemed and uplifted by the genuine outpouring of gratitude for being part of this paradoxical life of ours.

* The realm of God involves all of life. It is inclusive, not exclusive.

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