Mac N Cheese

I think it is time to at least start talking about Macaroni and Cheese. God help me.

My son and I were talking about religion over Chinese buffet the other day. It all came down to Mac N Cheese.

Here is how we got there. We were talking about how the teaching, or at least the talking, at a church we were attending years ago saw those who had doctrinal differences as wrong, and us as right. I can't say there was ridicule, but we did laugh at them. I mean, how could they be so wrong, and still be so convinced that we were wrong?

The analogy occurred to me. I have been telling my boy all these years that he eats his macaroni and cheese wrong. Why?, you ask. No black pepper. Can you imagine? But then, he also eschews any hint of hot sauce on his eggs. So, on two of the most important matters of life, he is clearly in need of enlightenment.

As we talked on, it occurred to me that there are lots of variations on the macncheese theme. Loose, tight, creamy, dry, simple cheese, exotic cheese, true mac, spongebob shapes, .........

Common to all? Macaroni, and Cheese. And so with the Gospel. Macaroni and Cheese. If you like goat cheese on there, good for you. I am just glad to know you, 'cause you have both founding components.

You have seen the pasta instructions some places. They offer the cook the opportunity to add some oil to the water to help avoid sticking. Well that place we were back then had to have oil. The more oil the better. Personally, I liked the oil. Still do. But there were folks there that were drinking the oil, running their cars on the oil, bathing in the oil and using the oil as an enhancement to their relationships, but they had never tasted the McNCheese.

Anyway, I am just getting started with this thing. Shoot. May end up being a book.

Father, help me understand the part of this that I need to for your glory. I just know I spoke poorly of folks who ate the good stuff, but did not eat it like me. And especially the ones who just stared at it and never ate it.