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Brown Stuff in the Middle

In line at McDonald's, Ken asked 5-year-old Lindsay, “You like your cheeseburger with only Ketchup, right?”  Lindsay responded with, “Well, I think it tastes better when they put that brown stuff on it, too.”

 

Ken was about to correct her, but decided that “brown stuff” may be a more accurate way to describe Mc-burgers.

 

A burger without the brown stuff in the middle is pretty bland.  Actually, by definition, it isn't a burger at all.  And a Christian without Christ at the very center is pretty bland, as well.  Actually, by definition, she isn't a Christian at all.

 

Comments

The Farmer's Wife said:

Sort of like an Oreo cookie, with no white stuff in the middle!

Here's an idea, though, with regards to the Christian without Christ in the center: sometimes I think, as a Christian "sandwich" that when I squeeze my "buns" too tightly (focus on me, so hard) Christ is still there, He's just squooched out, hanging on the side.  He's still there, for me, I just need to shift my focus and straighten out my sandwich.  So to speak.  It drives me crazy to have the hamburger fall on the paper and have to try to re-assemble the burger, but it can be done, and it's just as good.  Just got a little messy, there for a while.  Like my life.  

I love your word-pictures.  I'll probably never order a cheeseburger again, without thinking of the "brown stuff" of Christ in my life.

# August 3, 2009 6:46 PM

Shannon said:

Dear Farmer's Wife, you lost me for a split second at 'squeezing your buns'...  ha ha!  But I get what you're saying.  

I think that my spiritual journey resembles a flopped out and reassembled burger... actually a continual restacking and centering!  Messy, yes.  But anchored with a fancy toothpick called mercy.  

# August 3, 2009 8:28 PM
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