Licorice Gumdrops

Gumdrops, including black licorice ones. Photo courtesy of http://www.candywarehouse.com/assets/...

I’m not as crazy about gumdrops as I was as a kid. Back then, I loved their super sugary sweetness and paid no attention at all of what harm they might do my teeth. Now, I get a toothache when I think of eating one, although I will admit, around Easter some years, I throw caution to the wind and bite into a few of them. I ignore the fact that the dentist may have to take a bite out of my wallet but then the sugar rush and the sugar high sends me plummeting down the slippery slope and I realize that much processed sugar is not good for any man. As a kid, though, who paid attention to these warning signals?

One of my favorite gumdrops to eat was probably my least favorite gumdrop of all. Why did I eat it, then? Because it made me appreciate all the other gumdrops in the pack. This was the licorice gumdrop. It was the one that tasted both bitter and sweet. The reason it was one of my favorites was because it made all the other gumdrops taste better by comparison.

Do you like ugliness or beauty better? Do you like pain or pleasure better? Do you like people who are mean or nice better? Like that licorice gumdrop, we have to have the bad to really appreciate the good. One day, we will not have to have comparisons to appreciate beauty. How beautiful it will be when we leave the ugly sins of this world to go to Heaven and dwell in the presence of beauty with our Savior, Jesus Christ.

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Higher Call: Sometimes God has more work for us to do (Paperback)
By (author): Jacob Bembry



"I did not see the light during my near death experience. Either I did not see it or I do not remember it," so begins Jacob Bembry's book "Higher Call." The book is a collection of columns and thoughts he has had, whether it be about the day that he died and was brought back through the miracle working power of Christ, or a story about his mentally-challenged sister, Abbie, riding an elephant at the circus. The book is packed with Bembry's thoughts. Some are deep, some are challenging and some are funny. The theme woven through the columns is God's love towards us. There is something for everyone in the book. Meet Bembry, a graduate of Florida State University, who is the editor of two weekly newspapers in Madison, Florida, and the caretaker for his sister, Abbie, his elderly father and his physically disabled brother, Danny.



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