Hello, God. It's me, Mara.

You know, Lord, a little blurb told how a grandpa developed a delicious jelly using a powdered grape drink. He even won some blue ribbons at the country fair. He sat at the table spreading a half-inch thick serving of jelly on his toast when his wife asked him if he didn’t think that was a little much, to which he replied, “I made it. I guess I can have as much as I want.”

Hummmm, we thought, what about those little crabapples out there on that tree, just begging to be made into something! So, off we went to picking ’em, but once made into juice, there wasn’t near enough to make jelly. If Grandpa could invent something, why couldn’t we? The strawberry kiwi juice in the fridge that nobody’s drinking, that might work — couldn’t hurt to try it. Needless to say, we had a winner, hands down.

Once made, we wondered how that would taste on vanilla ice cream. Another winner! Yum! We didn’t have a grandma nearby to say that maybe we were putting in on a little thick but we did remember a phrase in Your word, Lord, (Jeremiah 15:16): “When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart’s delight, for I bear your name, O Lord God Almighty.” Jeremiah was going through a depressing time, and we, in this day and age, don’t know what’s around the next corner in our own economy with downsizing, finding jobs, and general fear of unknown tomorrows. God spoke to Jeremiah — it tasted good and he was refreshed.

If we want that sense of joy and wish to be refreshed as Jeremiah was, we too, should “taste and see that the Lord’s Word is good.”

Thank you, Lord, for refreshing us when we become weary in this life.

Love, Mara