March 14, 2015

Best Laid Plans and Happy Crows

Read: Luke 14:15-24

“Blessed is he who eats bread in the house of the Lord”

So it says on the box these pies arrive in. This was made in a secret pie bakery known only to the members of a centuries old secret pie society. Berries are picked fresh and pies baked daily in wood fired ovens by certified Little Old Ladies who live in hollowed out trees in the woods. These are the same little old ladies who taught the Keebler Elves how to make cookies.

This Michigan Made 4 Berry pie is an example of one of their most sought after pies and was obtained only after bribing a Leprechaun, and was donated by an anonymous member of the centuries old secret pie society. Whosoever wins this pie at auction will surely find their pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Surely a story like this would help fetch a good price for a pie at Gumbopalooza. That is until the pie was left on the roof of the car as we took off down St Clair Highway an hour and a half before the event was to begin. Sometimes, the best laid plans….???

Now, most of the pie lady story is true and the ladies have a religious observation each Saturday and so we couldn’t get another until Sun morning. Fortunately we know a lady who usually has a few of these very same pies kept in a secure location next to the saloon in Adair MI. Off to Adair we went, she had only one pie but it hadn’t been baked yet. It was 5:00 and we had an unbaked pie, 40 miles from church. No time for the aforementioned saloon.

A lucky break, number 2 son was home, and he lives between Adair and the Church. His oven was hot when we arrived, the pie baked, we left his entire home smelling like fresh pie and left, with the pie. We arrived at the church only fashionably late, fresh hot pie in hand, and the winner of the pie told me the pie was worth all the effort and it’ll help provide someone some much needed shelter.

Sometimes we find even the simplest things can go awry leading us in unexpected directions. The Lord won’t give us anything we can’t handle if we keep trying.

Everything works out if you let it.

And if you’re a crow without much food and near freezing to death in Casco Twp., you never know when 7 lbs of fresh berries are going to fly off the top of a car and land right in the middle of the road at your feet.

Ron Draper