Toxic Turkey

     Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! We are blessed with wonderful family and friends. We made a yummy meal today, but had to survive our "toxic turkey" first! After my husband washed and dried the turkey, I slathered it with olive oil and then began sprinkling cajun salt all over it. At first I was just slightly coughing, but then I was coughing, sneezing and choking apparently due to the red chili peppers in the salt. So my brave husband stepped up to take over the dangerous job of seasoning our turkey and was soon coughing as well.
     We began making jokes about our "toxic turkey" and if in the future we have anyone try to break in, we'll shake cajun salt at them:) But in all seriousness, God calls us to be "the salt of the earth." Salt is an essential mineral to the workings of the body. Too much is harmful and not enough can lead to death. Salt also ads flavor to life and enjoyment to food. Salt without saltiness would be like money in a bankrupt society, of no worth. 
     Today I'm grateful to God to be His child. Through salvation that is only in Jesus Christ, not by anything that I have done, but purely by the grace of God, I am able to call on Jesus Christ my Savior and Lord, to season my life in ways only He can do. Thank you Lord for my many blessings today, salvation being the most important one as it keeps me from being a "toxic turkey" in this world and a "fried turkey" in the next world! Amen.

^{Matthew 5:13} “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.