The Mayo Story

I’ve been thinking a lot about faith versus sight in the past year and have been collecting stories, thoughts, quotes, verses, etc. that I hope to put together into an article at some point. A couple weeks ago I added another story to my collection and it illustrates my point so well that I thought I’d share it by itself. (By the way, I did tell my sister that I was going to use this illustration and I thanked her for it, too, because it is exactly the type of story I was looking for!)

While looking for recipes to use up our abundance of eggs one day, I came across a recipe for homemade mayonnaise. I know that mayo from the store isn’t that great for you, so although we don’t use it a lot, I thought I’d give the recipe a try. It sounded like an interesting experiment, anyway!

Later that evening after my brother found out that I had made mayonnaise, he brought out a copy of the Backyard Poultry magazine that he gets and showed me a section where it gave recipes and tips for making your own mayo. As I scanned the pages, one of my sisters made a comment about how homemade mayonnaise was gross because it used raw eggs. She had seen me making the mayo earlier in the day.

“Mayonnaise that we buy from the store has raw eggs, too,” I replied.

“I know, but I SAW you crack that egg!”

“But wouldn’t you rather have mayonnaise with our eggs from our chickens rather than raw eggs that you don’t know anything about?” I asked.

“No, because I SAW you crack that egg!”

That’s when I began laughing and exclaimed that I was so happy to now have another perfect illustration to add to my growing list. ;-) If you don’t understand how this is a perfect illustration now, you will once I get the time to write my article and share it with you!