A Visit to the Skirted Heifer

            While I was in Colorado in August,  I ate most of my meals at places that I do not eat when home in the Carolinas.   While I might visit a chain restaurant when I am at home,  I try to deliberately visit eating places that I cannot eat at when I am at home.  One of those places I ate at in Colorado Springs was named the Skirted Heifer.   I ate there at the invitation of my daughter, Ginger, who shared that it had been featured on a show on a Food Network cable show.   I know what a skirt is, and I know what a heifer is.  However, I do not normally connect the two.

            I soon discovered that one had the option to order their hamburger at the restaurant “skirted”.   Curiosity got the best of me and I ordered my burger “skirted” even though I was not sure what that would mean.  When I got my order, I soon discovered that a “skirted” burger had cheese that not only covered the burger but covered the exterior of the hamburger bun.     Some of you will remember a national hamburger chain many years ago that featured an elderly woman asking  “where’s the beef?” when she got her burger.    At the Skirted Heifer, there was no need to ask where is the beef or where is the cheese.   The beef covered the entire bun and the cheese was bigger than the bun.    I am not certain that a nutritionist would be happy about the amount of cheese I had on my burger that evening, but I was pleased that I got much more than I had expected.   It was perhaps not so good for my diet, but it was good for a consumer who wants to feel like they got more than they ordered.

            Sometimes, a message from God and a promise of God shows up in the most unusual place.   Such was the case as I left the Skirted Heifer on that day.   I was reminded of this passage from Ephesians 3: 20-21 that says:  

²⁰ Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, ²¹ to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

            God gives us more than we ask or imagine in all sorts of ways.  While a restaurant might give us lots of cheese on our burger, God  gives us blessing and  abundance every day.   Thanks be to God.  Have a joy-filled week. --  Pastor Randy Wall 

Prayer:   God,  we give you thanks for the abundance that you give us always.  Give us an open spirit to what you offer us in this day and in this life;  through Jesus Christ our  Lord.  Amen.