Just a spoon full of Sugar...

Just a spoon full of Sugar... Helps the medicine go down… (not my typical 80’s genre, I know)

When Donelle was talking last week, I (apparently) scribbled down a note that has taken me all week to notice and interpret. The two lines in were:

• Spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down
• When life gets sour (make lemonade by adding sugar)

I remember Donelle saying something about sometimes life gets sour, and we don’t understand things. For some reason, I just started thinking about making lemonade. How do you make lemonade? You add sugar to your lemon juice. Then that turned in to the Spoon Full of Sugar song running through my head – is that really a song, who knows…?

So what does any of that have to do with any of this… Well, God is our sugar (I guess everyone needs a pet name)… Life can be sour when God’s not present, but when you add God (allow him in), you get lemonade, or when there’s something tough to swallow (like medicine) – decisions or issues – make sure you’ve got a spoon full of God (He goes a long way) and take on that decision knowing that He has a plan for each of us – far be it for us to understand it – and it can make it easier and give you peace (helps that medicine go down – much better than a 16 calorie teaspoon of cane sugar).

I’m not sure why that seems to tie to today’s scripture verses, but the apply at the bottom says “Take time over the next few days to reflect anew on who you are in Christ, asking God what that means for how you should live.” We (I) need to stop trying to drink lemon juice and take nasty medicine straight up -- it doesn’t prove anything to anybody, the smart man accepts God’s help and involvement, and becomes a better example in the process. Share God’s love and how he can help us all, every day, for it is by Him and through Him all things are possible… Just a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down (and helps it all make better sense)…

My prayer for us all this week is, in the words of one of the (again, not so great) 80’s theologians, Def Leopard: “Pour Some Sugar on Me!”

Rob