I Can Never Have Too Much Ice Cream (standard:humor, 912 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Nov 01 2021	Views/Reads: 809/513	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Whenever greed takes over, we never can have enough. Then we become a slave to our greed.

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“I'm sorry, my dear,” she said as disparagingly as possible, “we've run
out of ice cream.” 

Those words are the worst words ever uttered in our parsonage. To be out
of ice cream is the most stressful time of the week. How is it possible 
to run out of ice cream? 

She explained by telling me that Publix did not have their usual Buy One
Get One sale this week. So she was waiting for the sale to go on. 

I sat there thinking how in the world can I survive any day without
ending it with a bowl of ice cream? 

There's a lot of things in this world that I can do without. Number one
on that list is broccoli. I don't even like the sight of that so-called 
vegetable. I don't even think it's a real vegetable, contrary to the 
thoughts of my wife. 

I have a long list of what I can do without, and nowhere on that list is
ice cream. 

How I would get through the night without my ice cream is a mystery that
only the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage can solve. 

They only know what you like and what's important to you when it's not
available. Then you begin to appreciate the value of that item. 

I thought of the Bible verse in the Old Testament that sort of focuses
on this idea. “Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, 
and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their 
own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter” (Isaiah 56:11). 

Whenever greed takes over, we never can have enough. Then we become a
slave to our greed.


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