Pastoral Ponderings—Recipe for Gold
Take three eggs, a bit of water, mix’em up real good, dip your bread in it, lightly soaking both sides, then toss it on the griddle; repeat. Dress it up with a bit of powdered sugar sprinkled on top and some home-made blackberry syrup (that’s optional—the mama just wanted it plain anyway!), and serve it up with one of your favorite humans. Enjoy a giggling breakfast together—simple as that!
Cooking up golden moments is probably not what alchemists of old had in mind, but sharing such moments with my visiting mom is even more valuable than anything all the alchemists put together could ever come up with. While you’d likely enjoy sharing such golden moments with my mom too, you probably have some of your own favorite humans that might work out better for your golden moments.
I can imagine Jesus having cooked up such golden, giggling moments with his mom too—and He could have even used the same ingredients—though it likely would have been date syrup rather than blackberry syrup. After all, Jesus was well aware of the Big Ten calling us to “honor your father and mother” too.
And we even see such a moment at the end of the Gospel of John when He’s cooking up a golden moment of breakfast with other of His favorite humans on the beach. Likely they were also giggling together over “throw the net over the OTHER side,” the look on the guys’ faces when they recognized Him, and Peter putting his clothes ON to jump in the water, and sputtering his way to shore (have you ever tried swimming with your clothes on? Peter was obviously NOT thinking clearly!).
Our lives are usually too rushed. Cook up a few golden moments of your own, and share a few giggles while you can. A part of the value of such moments is in how fleeting they are. Bless someone with golden moments today! – Rev. Jim