Jesus, did you ever eat a snickerdoodle? Or how about a molasses cookie? Any cookie at all?
We know You tasted bread, savored it even. But what about butter and sugar – the ingredients that turn flour into something other than bread? Were they part of Your diet when you walked on earth?
I’m wondering, because cookies comprised a significant part of my work this past week – work focused on leading people to You. My Sweetie and I personally baked two batches. And I wrote about cookies in another context – wrote about collecting them, seeking to supply our upcoming Kairos Prison Ministry retreat with the cookies needed treat our inmate brothers with a reliable taste of Your abiding love.
Then yesterday, the freshly-made cookies featured prominently in our invitation and recruitment efforts at Iron Sharpens Iron – an “equipping conference” that attracted nearly a thousand Christian men to a church in south county for a day of inspiration and instruction.
Cookies were Good News at our Kairos booth. They helped to lure guys in and get some really intriguing conversations started about joining our ministry. But cookies can be bad news, too, right? A temptation to overindulge…a sweet link to our dietary addictions.
So I guess that’s why I’m wondering whether You ever enjoyed a cookie? And more to the point, what You might actually think of this whole Kairos Cookie vibe: Are we blind men leading the blind, so that both fall into the pit? Or more like the branches of a good tree, bearing good fruit?
We want to be more like You, Jesus. Show us the Way to make our words, Your words. Pour Your goodness into us, make us Gospel men, so that “out of the store of goodness in our hearts, we produce good.”
And hey, if You’re hungry…maybe stop on by our booth for a snickerdoodle!
Let us pause now…to recall that we are in the presence of the Holy & Merciful One.
IHS
With Us Still 