So this meme is funny...tragic funny, but funny.
I am a big fan of BP&J sammies. It is ludicrous to think anyone lovingly spread peanut butter to each and every edge of a piece of soft, sweet, white bread and then spooned on a generous amount of jelly and putting the bare sides together resulting in getting their hands gross and messy trying to eat this marriage of salty, creamy and sweet, sticky goodness.
It is happening everyday, right now, played out before our eyes on social media, television, and in other forms of communication. Places designed to inform, connect and entertain have become nothing more than a messy backward sandwich that is difficult to enjoy.
This pairing that is offered is more trouble than nutrition. Each element, on its own is wonderful. Both ingredients together are much better. But not when trying to retain their isolated, compartmentalized disposition. What the PBJ sandwich eating world craves, right now, is enlightenment that comes from the unity of the two distinct flavors.
All this talk of yummy sammies is making me hungry and I am working hard to not gain the COVID 19 so allow me to make my point. There are many people sharing their knowledge born out of what they are experiencing mixed with pontifications of what needs to be "done" to save us all. If you are one of those people, please take advice from the backwards sandwich. Listen, gain knowledge and consider the experiences and knowledge of others...especially those that seem oppositional to your ideas and ideals. Delivering your message without consideration of the whole picture leaves the reader/listener with an experience akin to gooey jelly running down your wrist and to the floor, just annoying and messy. Or, worse yet, being a one song note is loud and choking like a big dollop of peanut butter, mixed with gooey bread stuck in your throat.
King Solomon spoke of this very problem in his book of wisdom, Proverbs. He wrote this:
15 "A continual dripping on a rainy day
and a contentious wife are alike;
16 to restrain her is to restrain the wind
or to grasp oil in the right hand.
17 Iron sharpens iron,
and one person sharpens the wits of another."
King Solomon was a very wise man. His wisdom was pure and holy. When he became King of the United Kingdom of Israel, succeeding his father, the great warrior, King David, he knew he needed something to win the upcoming battles with the enemy. He was not a warrior. He had seen the ruin and wreckage of the battle. He prayed for wisdom and he got it. His words are worth pondering. Imagine what the listening, reading public could learn if what you are trying to teach us was balanced with the consideration of the whole picture and revealed in the light of another's point of view based on their experiences and knowledge. Just know, the nagging and the ragging is not reaching me or teaching me and only creating disharmony and confusion. Now, let me go and wash my hands of this sticky mess, I need some coffee to wash it down.
It is happening everyday, right now, played out before our eyes on social media, television, and in other forms of communication. Places designed to inform, connect and entertain have become nothing more than a messy backward sandwich that is difficult to enjoy.
This pairing that is offered is more trouble than nutrition. Each element, on its own is wonderful. Both ingredients together are much better. But not when trying to retain their isolated, compartmentalized disposition. What the PBJ sandwich eating world craves, right now, is enlightenment that comes from the unity of the two distinct flavors.
King Solomon spoke of this very problem in his book of wisdom, Proverbs. He wrote this:
15 "A continual dripping on a rainy day
and a contentious wife are alike;
16 to restrain her is to restrain the wind
or to grasp oil in the right hand.
17 Iron sharpens iron,
and one person sharpens the wits of another."
King Solomon was a very wise man. His wisdom was pure and holy. When he became King of the United Kingdom of Israel, succeeding his father, the great warrior, King David, he knew he needed something to win the upcoming battles with the enemy. He was not a warrior. He had seen the ruin and wreckage of the battle. He prayed for wisdom and he got it. His words are worth pondering. Imagine what the listening, reading public could learn if what you are trying to teach us was balanced with the consideration of the whole picture and revealed in the light of another's point of view based on their experiences and knowledge. Just know, the nagging and the ragging is not reaching me or teaching me and only creating disharmony and confusion. Now, let me go and wash my hands of this sticky mess, I need some coffee to wash it down.
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