Discernment

This morning I ran to the store to buy some salad fixings to take to my sister's house (for another in a long line of holiday dinners). As I contemplated the vast variety available, and remembering a recent event at my daughter's house, I decided I would never look at a "bag 'o salad" in the same way again.

On Christmas eve, Karina opened one of those pre-sorted, pre-washed, "ready-to-eat" bags of salad greens and found a large insect in the mix. She didn't freak out, but did take the time to enclose it in a plastic bag together with a carefully-composed letter and mail it to the manufacturer. I don't know what their response will be; probably a polite letter with a disclaimer that in spite of their rigorous controls the consumer should be aware that these things cannot be totally avoided. We'll see. Anyway....

I guess this shows that things aren't always what they seem to be, and we can't give up our responsibility to "sort things through" in life. This goes for things "packaged and delivered":

on television,
on the internet,
from your neighbor,
from the pulpit.....