Monday – 3rd Week of Easter  - revisited

Gospel – John 6:22-29

In A Pickle!

Pickle Jar

A few years ago, my youngest grandson, Nate, developed a sudden passion for cooking.  Some of his creations, all from scratch, have included huge cinnamon rolls, chicken parmesan and a complete traditional English breakfast (although he wasn’t able to find any blood sausage).  In fact, it was only last week that Nate again made his chicken parmesan for the family! So while the kitchen was left a disaster zone, the meal was amazing!

And so besides his obvious experience of helping me bake zucchini bread, he reminded me the other day that years ago he and I also made pickles.  And he loved those pickles.  And now he (and I) has this sudden craving to make and consume those pickles once again!

One teeny problem!  I couldn’t find the recipe.  I searched high and low the last couple of days for that recipe.  Who knew that, over the years, Ginger and I had accumulated over 40 cookbooks.  And that doesn’t even include the 3 large binders of hand-me-down, hand-written, and well-worn recipes that make up our bank of favorite dishes!  And the pickle recipe is nowhere to be found!  Hours were spent searching for that one recipe – all to no avail!  It’s a simple quick-pickle recipe for a refrigerator cucumber pickle and I just can’t find it!  And that just makes the craving for it all the more intense!  I guess what I lack in success is made up for with my persistence!

Persistence!  That is what we see in today’s Gospel.  The people had just been fed by Jesus with the miracle of the loaves and fishes.  And they craved more from Jesus – more words, more teachings!  And so they search for Him high and low.  Not finding Him around the town of Tiberias, they get into boats and travel across the Sea of Galilee to Capernaum.  They are relentless; they are persistent.  They will not rest until they find Jesus.  And when they do finally find Him, Jesus begins to teach them once again!

Are you searching for Jesus?  Have you found Him?  How persistent are you in your search?  How relentless?  Have you given up the search?  Or will you stop at nothing until you find Him? 

The search continues!  Don’t give up; don’t give in!  Be persistent!  And for those inquiring minds out there, NO, I still haven’t found the recipe and I am still craving those pickles.  However, I have found a couple of similar recipes.  So the next pickling adventure continues!

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