I love Twinkies. Or I used to. Then I found out what's really in them. So now I don't eat them anymore ... unless I'm really hungry ... or really stupid.
Of the 39 ingredients in a Twinkie, there are a few recognizable ones: flour, sugar, salt, baking soda, water and a trace of egg. But they have an unnaturally long shelf-life of about a month, meaning the 'normal' ingredients like milk, cream or butter are replaced with incomprehensible and barely pronounceable industrial ingredients like cellulose gum (gives the creme filling that slippery feel), lecithin (they use it in paint to keep pigments evenly dispersed), Yellow #5 and Red #40 (which give the Twinkie that golden look), sorbic acid (comes from petroleum), and sodium stearoyl lactylate (who knows, but it can't be good). Not the kinds of things mom used in the kitchen.
I suppose the spiritual application is so glaring that you're already there ahead of me. I probably don't even have to say it. But I will.
We can have the most amazing exterior -- smooth, attractive, appealing, sweet and tasty ----- and yet on the inside where it counts, we're all slippery, pigment, smoke and mirrors, petroleum-based and sodium stearoyl lactylate.
Where GOD looks at us is where WE need to focus our energies. "God looks on the heart, not on a man's outward appearance." But the amount of time we SPEND on the inside often pales by comparison to the amount of time we spend on the outside - perfecting, polishing, preening, coiffing. God is way more interested in us listening, meditating, pruning and loving.
No spiritual Twinkies here.
And be blessed.
1 comment:
Just to add to your left handed article, the left eye translates to ocularis sinister - yet another negative connotation. Then there were those of us hit with rulers & such for writing with out left havd in first grade. Ah yes, scarred for life for something such as this.
Just kidding.
And on another note, I still love the occasional twinkie! Might as well get it all out.
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