On these beautiful days with sweet breezes, I’ve been rocking on the porch and devouring my women’s magazines lately. I came across this intriguing recipe in a July issue for Fruit Ripple Ice Cream. With recipes, I mostly like to just look at the pictures and think about how nice it would be if someone made that dish for me (cook much? Not me!), but this recipe has only three ingredients. That gave me hope!
But as soon as I was about to say “agree” to the recipe, I got bogged down by the first ingredient: the fruit sorbet of my choice. My youngest son would want peach. My middle son would want strawberry. My daughter would protest that chocolate should be a fruit. My husband would be non-committal. Ugh. My three-ingredient recipe suddenly seemed too hard.
Sometimes I love the variety of life: genres of music, personalities, hairstyles, varying gifts and skills. But variety can create some interesting challenges when we’re trying to make everyone happy. What do we do? As for me, I’m going with one batch of strawberry and one batch of peach. But in the larger arena of life, it can get complicated.
Here’s some biblical wisdom: “Also do not take to heart everything people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you (Ecclesiastes 7:21). Not everyone is going to love your choices, and sometimes either fairly or unfairly, people will criticize your decisions. Learn to sort through what is constructive criticism to strengthen your character and what is one person’s opinion expressed unkindly on a bad day.