Biscuits and Gravy

Biscuits and Gravy

This morning on my way to work I was listening to SpiritFM and the question for the day was “What is the smell that takes you back to your childhood?”  Well that was easy for me!  Biscuits and gravy!  I shared my memory of biscuits and gravy.

When I think of biscuits and gravy or when I smell it, I think of how mommy must’ve prayed over that pot every time she made it.  Prayed there would be enough to feed all the youngins’ around her table.  No matter how many times that spoon was dipped in the pot…there was always enough. Biscuits and gravy remind me how much they loved each other.  You can’t be married for 69 years and go through all the mountains and valleys they went through and not have love.  Then I think of the love they had for God and how they passed that on to us.  And now we pass that on to our children and I see them passing it on to their children!  Wow!  I know Mommy is rejoicing in Heaven at how the lessons she taught us are still being passed on from generation to generation.  When I smell that, I just feel like Mommy is wrapping me up in a big hug.  Now that’s what I call comfort food.  So when I smell biscuits and gravy or even think about it, it goes way beyond a pleasant smell that starts as an aroma floating in the air.  It’s a smell that conjures up images of Mommy in her apron with her hair net on standing in the kitchen at the stove.  Images of Daddy at the table with his biscuit and gravy with his pickled beans or other weird side dish proclaiming “it’s good- just try it!”  I really miss those two!

I encourage you all to find that smell that takes you back.  I have enjoyed my walk down memory lane today.  God has blessed the broken road I have traveled with many loved ones and friends.  For that I am thankful!

Romans 15:13

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.