Lentil burgers and the mustard seed

Just finished putting together our lentil, walnut burgers (I'm sure it would help if I could put some garlic in them , as I'm sure he would never know the difference either) for dinner tonight and have some time to sit down and blog a little. Michael figures that if he puts enough catsup, relish and mustard on them, he'll never know the difference from a good juicy beef burger. Right! He really does try hard to go along with the program since this low cholesterol, low salt diet is really for him. However, he really enjoys the treat when he gets to eat out and order a prime rib once in a while.  I say, "Go for it!" since he won't find one on our table at home, anyway.

So the parable of the mustard seed is about how something that starts out so small can become something so enormously big. I know it is talking about faith, but it is true with anything good, I think.  A small act like picking up a beer can off the street (Bub was way ahead this morning) seems so insignificant.  Yet, when you multiply that by every beer can on the curbside on every street, the impact becomes huge.

When you recycle one little water bottle and keep it out of the landfill, that seems immaterial in the grand scheme of what we throw away. Yet when you look around at all the water bottles used in America and around the world and how we could impact the mess they make with taking the little amount of effort it takes to recycle them, it is huge, again.

Our little plastics recycling program seems to many not even enough to make a tiny ripple in the big ocean of plastic waste.  Yet, when our little ripple touches the next little ripple and on and on, eventually you have a huge tsunami effect upon our earth.  Wow, now that is really huge!!