Some Salt Please
"We are called to be salt. And sometimes salt stings.” My sweet friend said. Her words spoke truth into my troubling thoughts. Along with being a light, we are the salt of the earth. The Sound of Music has the famous song that goes - A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down The medicine go down, the medicine go down Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down In a most delightful way Sugar looks like salt, but taste and functions differently. In the Bible, Jesus doesn’t say we are the sugar of the earth. We aren’t just to sweeten things up to make things go down easier. Sometimes salt does sting. I had been troubled by something that I had to do. To not do it would be wrong. However, it didn’t feel very loving. It bothered me. Yes, sometimes salt does sting. My husband Ben’s trick for sore throats or a sore in the mouth is to gargle or swish around a saltwater rinse. The first time I did this I didn’t expect the salt to sting so intensely, and tear...