Grated Cheese

Have you looked at your cheese grater lately?  Mine has two sizes of holes; one section has large holes and the other smaller holes for finer grating. This shredder makes using the cheese much easier in the recipes that I prepare. While using it tonight I started thinking that life is a lot like the cheese going over the grater holes.  Some of the things that happen to us in our life shred us into coarsely grated pieces.  These are the everyday things that happen to us – locking our keys inside the car when we are late or getting a short note from a friend.  These coarsely grated pieces allow our life to be flavored in a normal everyday sort of way.  The other side of the grater produces a much finer shredding of the cheese.  It takes more work to produce the same amount of grated cheese to use this side, but the finer shreds blend more thoroughly.  These finer gratings in our life are when we face surgery or are seriously depressed.  These times are harder, but they can produce in us a much better person. 

I also noticed something else while using my grater; it only worked when I was holding both the cheese and the grater in my hands.  Just as I needed to hold both the grater and the cheese, God always holds His love for us and our life in His hands while He is allowing us to be “grated” by life.  That’s the only way it works.