Who doesn't like whipping cream and butter? I know at our house the whipping cream disappears fairly quickly into the three kids, who, after eating some on pumpkin pie, promptly ask us to fill their mouths with it until it comes out their nose....and butter...with all the fresh gorgeous corn this year we went through a few blocks. Both of these products can go with so many things.....
The Creative Cleaver posted this thought on butter vs margarine;
"I trust a cow more than a chemist"
Just a thought...
Do you know how butter is made? Or whipping cream? It's been awhile since I read up on it for a speech I was preparing for, but apparently the fat molecules in cream have a hard casein shell.When you agitate a large portion of cream, like when you shake a container of it, or whip it, the shells break off and the fat globules begin to stick together-butter is born......in whipping, the air creates the light pockets in the dreamy fatty blobs....as the mixture melts in your mouth the air pockets pop, letting the fat burst on your tongue......leaving that great taste in your mouth and the nerves endings in your brain singing....
Ever feel like you jostle so many people in a day you want to scream? Your kids, your husband, people in Walmart clogging the self serve aisle with 45 items...a screaming youth group? In Max Lucado's book It's Not About Me, he says that God sends people who are challenging in ours lives to teach us how to love like Christ......
Sounds like the Butter Principle. Let the jostling of others in our lives remind us constantly to "Love one another as I have loved you..." (Christ) Let the people God sends across our paths break off our hard shells so we have something we can stick to them with....empathize with....identify with....
As I am standing in line today buying new flooring at Costco, I want to be butter...or whipping cream....a compliment to someones life, a good taste left in the mouth..
The kindness of others is keeping me going today....what's keeping you going?
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