Well Worn

"Okay, I need that small paperback cookbook, will you grab it?"

I dreaded these words...almost as much as my turn to put away the tupperware (aaakkk!!!!)

My mom's cookbook that she loved so much, and contained beloved recipes, was not small in thickness; it was a fat book, only small in height and width compared to the other books on the shelf. The pages were yellowing and browning, covered in food splatters, and falling out. I hated that book and swore that when I was old enough to cook, I'd find some good recipes in one of the other straight and clean books on the shelf.

Now I'm a little older and wiser.

I love that book. Actually, when I looked through my friend's cookbook the other day, I thumbed through looking for a "dirty" page. To me, that means that is a pretty good recipe, therefore making the page well worn.

I have several well worn pages.

Look for comments and notations.

Measurement adjustments

Food Splatters

Water Marks

Children's Books are also "well worn"

As are the scriptures!

I hope that throughout my life, I am also well-worn. I want to take care of myself, but I don't want to be the unused pages of a cookbook or the unread book on the shelf. I want to be Well-Worn and not just worn. I hope to have laugh lines rather than frown lines. I hope I can have more physical scars from trying something new than mental scars from missing out. I hope to have a brain that is packed full of knowledge, engraved with lessons, rather than smooth from lack of use. I want my heart to swell with love and friendship rather than disease from coasting through these days on Earth.