My Dad and I once stopped in for a quick visit with Mamaw Cox. As usual, she offered to fix us a snack. And, as usual, we said “Yes”.

She soon handed each of us a bowl of yummy looking strawberries. My first strawberry didn’t taste just right. I wasn’t alarmed, because sometimes you get a bad strawberry mixed in with the good ones. My second strawberry wasn’t any better. Nor the third. Glancing over at Dad, I saw that he was having the same experience. Neither of us wanted to say anything. Mamaw soon noticed that we weren’t eating our strawberries, and she asked if something was wrong. We suggested that there might be.

Retracing her steps, Mamaw soon determined that, in her effort to sweeten our strawberries, she inadvertently loaded them up with salt instead of sugar! She threw out the ruined batch and gave us some good strawberries.

Salt is fine if it is used for its intended purpose. Otherwise, it is pretty useless.

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.”—(Matthew 5:13).

If you want to be useful, make a difference in somebody else’s life. In a good way.