Whenever you’ve gone to a small country diner, have you ever noticed that they frequently have something on the menu, like for instance: a seafood melt sandwich, and also seafood melt omelet? If you look carefully, you can generally find a few of those coincidences. I used to think that this was a plan by the restaurant operator to give a similar selection to the customer at anytime of day. I have since come to realize that it is an attempt to use whatever is leftover from the lunch or dinner menu in an omelet, in order to make the most out of their resources. Instead of wasting precious stores of things like seafood, they can use them up in the omelets. This is a wise and efficient business move. It also turns the omelet into somewhat of a last ditch effort to avoid throwing something out. When I was growing up we used to joke about the food that was left at the end of the meal. Our slogan was this: “You might as well eat it; we’re just going to feed it to the hogs if you don’t.” I guess it could have been: “You might as well eat it or we’re just going to make an omelet out of it and feed it to you tomorrow.”
How about the Dagwood Sandwich? Take whatever you find in the ‘frig and stack it up on bread. Ever hear the saying: “If life gives you too many lemons, then it’s time to make some lemonade?” The idea being that if there are a number of things going sour in your life, then perhaps you could find a way to juice them all together, add a little sweetness, water it down and make a refreshing beverage that would serve to quench your thirst rather than to tax your day. I think that the omelet is a similar type example, except that instead of having only one brand of sourness to contend with and juice, we are faced with multiple types of different challenges at the same time. Perhaps if we looked at these challenges from this omelet viewpoint, we might discover how we could use what initially seems like unrelated challenges, and find a way to use the leftover understanding of those experiences and fit them together into a new understanding; one which blends the experiences together in such a way as to become a blessing to us and causes us to be nourished and strengthened rather than simply overwhelmed or burdened.
Life is not designed to be unchallenging. If it were, we would not mature, not grow, and not expand our understanding. Life is also not meant to be a spectator’s sport, but rather one of participation. Challenges will come, but then so will a new type of omelet and fresh glass of lemonade. Remember too that this will all go down a lot smoother if we are willing to invite someone else over for brunch. There is nothing wrong with allowing others into your kitchen to help with the lemon squeezing, the egg cracking and the nourishment that comes from tasting the victory.
Blessings!

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