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OR those same ingredients, including non-baked crust dough, cooked in a POT? Depending on your latitude and longitude, your answer may differ. As is the case with so many of the dishes that we call our favorites,


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a short road trip can have us seated at a local restaurant “enjoying” a concoction that is the same in name alone.


Diversity—it is truly the spice of life, but few of us, no matter how adventurous we fancy ourselves, really enjoy extra spice when it comes to our favorites. Of course, this dislike for extra spice (or semi-cooked dough in pot PIE) doesn’t end with our comfort foods. When we are anticipating a certain flavor—be it in our schedules, our relationships or the world around us—change is not comfortable; it is not easy, familiar or relaxing. If anything,


ot Pie: an amalgam of stew-like ingredients baked into a PIE with a flaky crust


HOME COOKING


change brings with it anxiety, annoyance, and sometimes even hate surrounding both the change and those responsible for the flavor alteration. Change, when we get down to it, is the recipe for just about every conflict the world has ever known. Tolerance and levelheadedness go out the window when we perceive that another group of worldviews or people is negatively impacting us.


Te Founding Fathers’ “Great Experiment”, the change to a democratic republic, was designed to promote human happiness. Much like the Declaration of Independence’s “pursuit of happiness,” however, promoting happiness is no guarantee of success in the endeavor, especially when change is an essential ingredient. Each year, decision-makers from throughout the country follow the interstates to Washington in an effort to add local flavor to the menu this country must dine upon. Our latitude and longitude, as well as our socio-economic and religious viewpoints


make cooking from the same cookbook nearly impossible. Te great melting pot (pie) that is America is not very conducive to serving comfort food for one another in the traditional sense.


Each year, decision-makers


from throughout the country add local flavor to the menu this country must dine upon.


Perhaps, then, it is imperative that we take the focus off of ourselves, as constituents, when seeking to add flavor to this experimental


gastronomic delight. Comfort food isn’t really about ease, familiarity or relaxation, just as comfort isn’t about each of us being comfortable. Comfort is about providing strength and hope; it’s about easing grief and trouble for those in need. Do not withhold good from those whom it is due, when it is in your power to act (Proverbs 3:27).


Like a great chef, the spices we should be seeking to add are those that will bring the greatest joy to our fellow brothers and sisters, even if the recipe isn’t our favorite.


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