"Left Overs"
"Gather up now the fragments---the broken pieces that are left over---so that nothing may be lost and wasted." (John 6:12) The Amplified Bible
What to do with 'leftovers'? There's left over turkey, gravy, dressing, cranberry sauce, left over sweet potato soufflé, left over squash casserole, green beans, a few leftover 'Nanny rolls'. As I looked in the fridge after my daughter-in-laws so graciously cleaned the kitchen, I discovered a multitude of plastic bowls. Some containers had fitted lids while aluminum foil covered the ones that had no findable lid. (You all have plastic containers in your cabinets that the lids have gone the way of socks in the dryer, haven't you?) My goodness, what bountiful leftovers!!! The left over cakes and pies were gobbled while watching Carolina beat Clemson on TV, the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
The Food Network will, I'm sure, share many recipes for Thanksgiving leftovers. Personally I just like a good old turkey sandwich slathered with cranberry sauce on a homemade roll.
Gathering up the pieces of the past, I recall when our oldest son, David, was a toddler, my husband, Dennis, coached in Woodruff. Following one Thanksgiving feast we stopped by our pastor friend's house while walking off the 'glut'. Preacher Morrow offered us 'a bite to eat'. We were stuffed to the gills but David asked in typical toddler talk, "Wanna gobble-gobble sandwich"'. That Thanksgiving fragment has not been wasted through the years. Our dear friend, Bobby Morrow recalls David's gobble-gobble sandwich fondly. "Don't let anything be wasted".
Our now, forty-year old son, David, doesn't remember that day but writes of gathered fragments of his own three boys quite often. Gathering up the pieces of their childhood will fill many baskets.
As Thanksgiving Day waned, 'gobble-gobble sandwich' son and wife Lisa gathered up some of the Thanksgiving leftovers along with their sons late in the evening and headed home. Our youngest son, Todd, his wife, Joice and their five children plus Joice's Mom, Becky, garnered their leftovers as they headed home. We shared our leftovers. And of course we cooked the turkey carcass and made 'gobble gobble' vegetable soup plus a lot of cornbread which came in handy on game day when the crowd reconvened....
Jesus prepared for the five thousand by the seashore from one little boy's contribution. He anticipated the leftovers, giving instructions for them following the meal. "Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted." John 6:12. After He had given thanks, He distributed to the disciples five small barley loaves and two small fish which fed five thousand and ended up with twelve baskets of leftovers.
What 'leftovers' do you have from Thanksgiving? Do they fall into the culinary category or the memory mixture? Do you have some broken pieces left over? You may have twelve baskets full. Jesus instructs us to 'gather them up and don't let any of them be wasted."
How will you deal with your leftovers?
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