Dinner Bell!

     Chopping up some vegetables, I was thinking to myself of something rather funny-- when I was 5 or so years old, I was one of those kids who hated eating the very things I was preparing!  Green beans, celery, and the like, they weren't exactly the most appetizing of foods.

     As kids growing up, we were probably told at least once by our parents to eat [all of] our veggies.  When dinnertime rolled along and our mothers brought out our plate of food,  On that plate were a variety of different things-- probably something like pasta or dinner rolls with some marinara sauce, meatloaf, and the green bean salad.  Of every meal, we would tend to eat only the sweets everything except whatever was green.

     In today's society, there's a plate of divers races, ethnicities, creeds, and religions.  We may love everyone who may support us.  We may love everyone who believes in the same thing as what we do.  We may even love everyone who doesn't like the same things we don't like!  However, what about those who doesn't believe in the same things we do?  What about those who doesn't like the same things we do?  We may not know it, but we may love everyone except the green beans or brussel sprouts of humanity-- the ones we tend to avoid because we may not exactly like associating with those types of people.

     It can be noted that in the Bible, even, Jesus' Twelve Apostles, no matter how amazing they may have been, have behaved this exact way.  They rebuked Jesus for what they thought was a waste of time, accepting the company of little kids.  They tried shooing away a blind man from the healing powers of Jesus because of his poverty-stricken state.  Peter, the leader of the apostles, chopped a soldier's ear off because he came to take away and eventually kill Jesus!  These people had their faults with their dealings with man-- just like us.

     The world is our dinner plate.  In order to be strong and healthy, morally and physically, we must eat all that is given to us by our parents at the moment that we have.  If we avoid the nutritious foods and just eat what tastes good, like candy, how will we grow?  How will we become strong?  Next time we see someone (or some people) we don't like, remember this.  The foods on the plate is there so that it may help us, not hurt us.  Eating it all will be a blessing upon us in the long run, far exceeding that of the immediate satisfaction of quelling hunger.