Blueberry Brie Chicken

Think of your favorite restaurant. I'm not talking about where you go because it's cheap, or close, or the place you go because your friends are there. I'm talking about YOUR favorite restaurant. Now think of your favorite item on the menu. If you're anything like me, you have a favorite dish at the favorite restaurant. Once I get it in my head that I'm going to a certain place, I usually already have made my dinner decision. Here's an example; I'm going to Arnold's in downtown Cincinnati; I immediately think of the blueberry brie chicken. My mouth is watering. 9 times out of 10 I will go for the blueberry brie chicken, but every once in awhile I’ll take a look at the menu. Oh, maybe the wild mushroom ravioli catches my eye, or the fresh catch of the day, and I veer off the beaten path for something new, something different.

Well gang, I have to say that this happens to me in more areas than just my restaurant/menu life. It happens in my activities life, my professional life, my spiritual life, my social life, and my love life. I have started, stopped, picked it up again, stopped again, thrown it to the curb, and gone back to the store to buy it all over again, stopped it again, started it again, with so many areas of my life. What about you?

The funny thing is, even while I’m contemplating something different on the menu, I know that I want the blueberry brie chicken. It makes me very sad, when I go for the “new” and “different” and realize, as I partake, that I really still prefer the blueberry brie chicken, and wish that I had chosen it this time, too.