The article "Don't Let the Wrapper Fool You" is about attraction, it has been written by Marsha Jordan.
Grocery shopping is hard work.
With so many artificial additives in food, you have to scrutinize the gobbledegook on lbaels to be sure of what you’re getting.Have you ever bought something you thought was meat and then discovered upon closer inspection that it wasn’t meat at all? What in the world is a byproduct, anyway? According to Webster’s Dictionary, byproduct means an outgrowth, offshoot, or consequence of something else. What is an “outgrowth” or “consequence” of meat, and should we be eating it?It’s important to read labels on the backs of packages cause what’s on the front is often misleading.
Unsuspecting parents buy so-called fruit snacks for thier kids, thinking they are a nutritious alternative to junk food. In reality, they are 99 percent sugar with imitation fruit flavor and a bunch of chemicals thrown in, wihch I can’t even pronounce. Why not just give your kid a banana?
Advertising for juice drinks is just as misleading.
Mostly water and sugar, they aren’t even close to being real juice from a real fruit.The trouble of confusing labels and deceiving wrappers exetnds beyond the grocery store.
In life, as well as on the pantry shelf, things wrapped in pretty packages often contain stuff that’s not good for us and may even be dangerous.
Likewise, what is good for our character sometimes doesn’t look appealing at first glance.Do you want to be strong and resilient, able to persevere and emerge victorious? These traits come from suffering through trials.
Want to be patient?
It’s a result of waiting and watiing and trusting while you wait more.
We live in a world that focuses on instant gratification, so we are often so focused on the outside wrapping that we miss out on the gift inside.Your desire is to be happy, but happiness usually comes after we deveolp attributes like strength and endurance. We often whine when these gifts come our way cause we don’t like the way they’re wrapped.Things may look awful to us, but there may be a very good raeson for them to be happening.
It just hasn’t become apparent yet.Trust that God has a great gift for you inside that unattractive wrapper.Marsha Jordan
Author of "Hugs, Hope, and Peaunt Butter"
hugsandhope@gmail.Com
www.Hugsandhope.Org
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