Life is like a pot of peanuts . . .

Dean Lisenby said something very wise tonight. (WRITE IT DOWN!!! DEAN DOES HAVE A BRAIN!!!) Ernie Strickland brought some green peanuts by the church late last week, and I decided to boil them tonight so all of us working on the Ladies Dinner setup could eat them and have a little reward. So, I did a little research, brought them to a boil them this afternoon, then let them soak for a little while. When I got to the church I would boil them for an extended period of time and then PRESTO! we would have boiled peanuts.

When I got to the kitchen, Jim Kizziar was there. He LOVES boiled peanuts. Jimbo got on the phone, got a precise recipe for us, and he and I went to work. We probably boiled them for an additional two hours and then took them off the heat to let them soak. THEY WERE AWESOME!! Some of them were green, and a couple of people told me it was the type of peanut, but they were good.

Someone else made a comment about how some of them were really good, and some of them were firm and green. That is when Dean let it fly: “That is how life is . . .” You know, he is right!! Peanuts from the same farm, from the same plants, in the same pot, and each one turned out a little bit differently. But all of them were GOOD!! Just ask the folks that were there at the end of our setup time!

And, life IS like a pot of peanuts . . . You never know what you’re gonna get!