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| the wonder-cookies |
Dear family and friends,
I love chocolate chip cookies - could eat them every meal. I love
them so much in fact, that recently I learned how to make them from scratch. Now I can
have them on demand, whenever I want. And they come out good too - not quite as
good as my mom's- but still quite acceptable.
So my heart went out to the family I was visiting. Their mom had
just had a big operation and couldn't do any cooking on her own. I had stopped
by to visit, and stayed for dinner – a friend had brought the meal. But
there was no dessert! They were out of cookies! And to make matters worse, they
have three high school-aged boys! It was like the wedding at Cana, but this time
Mary was saying, "They have no cookies!"
So I swung into high gear. Mom helped me find the chocolate
chips. Then there was the flour, eggs, salt, baking soda... vanilla extract...
oh yeah, and butter! In no time, the cookies were in the oven and not only all
three boys, but even mom was scraping finger-fulls of cookie dough from the
mixing bowl.
It sure was hard walking out of that house, leaving behind those
chocolate chip cookies.
Back home, ours was a cookie-less household. I resigned myself to
the fact, and went to the chapel to pray. On my way, the door bell rang. It was
about 9pm. Who could this be?
It turned out that one of our neighbors had thought it would be
nice to bring us a plate of - no, I am not making this up - chocolate chip
cookies! I thanked her profusely, and headed into the kitchen. Pouring myself a
glass of milk, I dug in. She must have added some sort of secret ingredient,
for these cookies were a-mazing. Really. They were still warm, had the perfect
amount of crispiness, and were light-years ahead of anything I could have ever
made.
She didn't know it, but she had been Jesus for me that night. And
Jesus had been so good, too good. He had taken my jars of water - my cookies,
and transformed them. Transformed them into something ever so much better than
wine - chocolate chip cookies!!!!!
Have a cookie and a glass of milk, it will do you good!!!!
God bless,
Father Kevin
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