All Leftovers Day

 

Dear Friends

Of course today is All Saints Day. But thanks to some saints, it is also, for me, All Leftovers Day!

The first saints were the kids that didn’t show up at our front door last night and St. Emily who left some beverages we didn’t finish consuming last night. Thus, I began today with a leftover breakfast (see picture above). I am, however, as I rub my stomach, left with a few questions:

Should I be concerned that except for sugar, water, enriched flour, really high fructose corn syrup and Yellow 5 and Red 40, I couldn’t pronounce the other 29 ingredients?

Should I be concerned that the box said “Contains bioengineered food ingredients”?

Should I be concerned that there was a stamp on the box which said “Best used by November 23^rd, 2014”? Just kidding, it was 2015. No, it was 2022.

Now that I have finished my mid-morning alka-seltzer, I am looking  forward to an all leftover lunch and dinner thanks to St. Kathleen! Choices will include her traditional Halloween Chili and Cornbread, her Saturday night oven fried chicken, and Sunday noon’s leftover one half bacon breakfast burrito and leftover one-half BLT and fries plate, ordered by St. Kathleen from Burger Basket, at my request, on our way home from church on Sunday.

Speaking of saints, we are all saints, of course, by virtue of our baptisms, when we were set apart to do our best to follow Christ’s teachings and example. There are so many words from so many hymns I could quote, but I will limit them to these (which I have modified), as a reminder that in spite of the news which over-emphasizes people behaving badly, there are far more who are acting decently, with kindness and great courage, in spite of their challenging circumstances:

They lived not only in ages past, there are hundreds of thousands still

The world is bright with the joyous saints who love to do Jesus’ will

You can meet them in church, or at work or at school,

People doing their best, trying to live by God’s rule

For the saints of God are folk just like me, and I mean to be one too.  

John