Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...wherever in the world you live! I hear you're a chocoholic too - I won't tell a soul! Chocolate is good for the body - and God's Word is good for the soul: "O taste and see that the Lord is good...(Psalm 34:8 KJV)." So please join me for a few moments of fun, food and inspiration - it's all calorie-free (believe that and I'll sell you the Brooklyn Bridge) and might even make your day!

Bible Byte 'n Chocolate Chew for Today: "Salt 'n Pepper People!?!"

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Salty people!! Think of "savory, tasty, pleasant" salt, and you've got a list of favorite people who bless your life, who add good flavoring of God's love to wherever He places them. The solid, reliable, dedicated wonderful Christian brothers and sisters we all know...God bless them!

Then there's the "pepper" kind...the smarting, stubborn, strong-willed--just plain DIFFICULT people you know who bless your life by driving you deeper into God's Word, His patience, and His grace. We all know a few--they may be dear family or even Christian friends; they may be strangers we deal with in the marketplace. But they are difficult--a little pepper goes a long way, but too much can send you into coughing, choking, tearful tests of endurance and exhaustion! Know people like that? Are YOU like that? Heaven forbid! Got someone in YOUR life today who's pouring on the pepper? Ask God for His grace and wisdom to deal with the difficult people He sends across your pathway. Most likely, they are deeply hurting, from past and present circumstances--only God knows. Place them in HIS hands, ask for His grace--and be HIS salt in their lives.

Be a spiritual chef today--specialize in salting someone's life--go easy on the pepper, PLEASE--and you will have a God-seasoned, choco-rich day! Salt and sugar go together just fine, so enjoy!! Prayer: "Lord, thank You for the "salty" people in my life who continually bless and encourage me; who are so much like You in who they are and what they do. And--thank You for the "pepper" people you send across my pathway. They're not much fun but Lord, they do drive me closer to You. Bless them, heal their hurts--and help me somehow to be a little bit of YOUR salt in their lives this day. In Jesus' Name, Amen."

--adapted from a Daily Bible Booster devotional at Peggie's Place!
--by Peggie C. Bohanon. Copyright 2008, Springfield, MO. All rights reserved.

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Chocolate-Related Devotionals by Peggie!

Chocolate De-Light! . . . The Rat, the Cat--and the Chocolate!

Confessions of a Chocoholic--by Peggie!

So Where's the Fudge? . . . Where's the Chocolate!

Other devotionals by Peggie: See The Devotional Buffet.

(With thanks and apologies to my good friend and choco-buddy, Georgia,
from whom I crooked some of these wonderful graphics, courtesy of Cute Colors Graphics. Thanks!)

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