Are You Muddy?
There’s something about crawfish. I don’t know what it is but I can eat my weight in them! I love those little buggers and when they are in season my mouth waters for them. Bring me a pile of them warm and spicy! MMMM-mmm!
Who decided that those muddy little crawlers would be so tasty and figured out how to eat them anyway...were they starving or were they fishing for something else? I wonder.
At any rate, I'm thankful for those brave culinary pioneers!
Not everyone has the gift of preparing good crawfish either. There really is a process to making them so good. Size selection is key, timing and seasoning is important too and man, if you get it right they are a delicacy to be enjoyed!
An important part of preparation of a perfect subject is purging. Purging helps rid the crawdad from impurities and makes them more palatable. Ah yes, a properly purged crawdad is tasty with a nice texture and bite. One that has not been properly cleaned/ purged will have a grit, a muddy taste and the meat isn’t favorable. Most would likely just spit it out. Yuck. What a waste.
Oh boy, when those little red beauties are poured out on the table, I cannot peel those tails and ingest them fast enough. They are a sight for my eyes! I light up at their color, savor their scent as I breathe it deep into my nostrils. As I reach out for a select handful and pull them to me my heart beats happily and I surely have a goofy grin on my face. All sounds are ignored around me and my taste buds start jumping. Going through the process of peeling and popping becomes a routine, a cadence, a rhythm! A dance! Grab, twist, squeeze, savor, toss, grab, twist, squeeze, savor, toss. Nothing else is relevant. I don’t need corn, sausage, water...just more.
At last, my stomach is like a ripe watermelon and I am sated. Until next time.
Sometimes we submerge ourselves in things that we enjoy in the moment, only to have to purge them later. Those tasty mudbugs do just that. They submerge themselves in mud and need to be purged to rid their bodies of the impurities. Aren’t we like those critters?
Too much of something is never good. Too much dessert will make us sick, too much work, rest, television, anything, can have an adverse effect if we don’t take time to purge it out, we can’t make room for anything else.
Some say too much of a good thing is not a good thing! Well, others would argue.
My point is, sometimes we need to purge things from our life to clean up our act and make room for better.
It’s amazing to think that something that lives and feeds on mud could become one of my favorite items of sustenance...some may not agree...but they may also enjoy tofu. To each their own.
Don’t get so wrapped up in what you enjoy that you forget to make room for things that others do. And make sure you leave yourself open for God to purge what He doesn’t find wholesome and good from you, to make room for His blessings.
Oh for the day that I stand before Him! May He be a thousand times more excited than when I get my crawdad fix!
