Nothing more Catholic than starting this post off with two confessions:
1) While I did technically meet my requirement and post this on 5/4 (may the fourth be with you), I had no content up except the quote above. I posted it as a place holder, hoping that something might come to me on a long drive home that would take me past midnight.
2) My fiancee wrote this title and quote as a prompt because we were buying a pizza at the time.
I have no idea in what way my soul is like a pizza except in that I'm largely Italian, and my largeness may be caused primarily by too much pizza.
But anyway, let's see how a pizza is like our soul.
I always tried to convince my parents and school authority figures that pizza is in fact a vegetable. It does have tomatoes (fruit *cough* its a fruit *cough*) and cheese, which if it isn't a vegetable, should be! Pizza is something universally loved because it is simple: bread, sauce, cheese. You can add many things on top of it but at the base level it is simple, beautiful and good.
Our souls are kinda like this. They are made inherently good. They are created by a master pizza chef and carefully tossed and stretched, almost seemingly to the breaking point, but in the end are the perfect amount of substance. God is a good chef and He knows what to do. We are made in love from our parents and God and this act of creation, the making of the pizza, is an act of love. That's the pizza is so desirous and our souls so satisfying to God and others who experience God through us.
But the simplicity can be layered later by our choices: the toppings. God made us a plain cheese pie and allows us to put whatever we want on top of our souls. With guidance and God's grace we may add many virtues to our souls, and strong bold flavors to our pizza: Pepperoni of Patience, Toppings of Temperance, Chastity Mushrooms (also the name of my upcoming album! Not really, at all).
But we can also create a garbage pie. We can add sins, corruptions, cabbage on our pizza and dirty socks can line our crust. It's our choice. In choosing to reject or accept the will of the chef, God, we can make a beautiful pizza or a horrid one.
So, as our bellies are now full of the yumness of pizza, let's strategize on how to make a good pie:
1) While I did technically meet my requirement and post this on 5/4 (may the fourth be with you), I had no content up except the quote above. I posted it as a place holder, hoping that something might come to me on a long drive home that would take me past midnight.
2) My fiancee wrote this title and quote as a prompt because we were buying a pizza at the time.
I have no idea in what way my soul is like a pizza except in that I'm largely Italian, and my largeness may be caused primarily by too much pizza.
But anyway, let's see how a pizza is like our soul.
I always tried to convince my parents and school authority figures that pizza is in fact a vegetable. It does have tomatoes (fruit *cough* its a fruit *cough*) and cheese, which if it isn't a vegetable, should be! Pizza is something universally loved because it is simple: bread, sauce, cheese. You can add many things on top of it but at the base level it is simple, beautiful and good.
Our souls are kinda like this. They are made inherently good. They are created by a master pizza chef and carefully tossed and stretched, almost seemingly to the breaking point, but in the end are the perfect amount of substance. God is a good chef and He knows what to do. We are made in love from our parents and God and this act of creation, the making of the pizza, is an act of love. That's the pizza is so desirous and our souls so satisfying to God and others who experience God through us.
But the simplicity can be layered later by our choices: the toppings. God made us a plain cheese pie and allows us to put whatever we want on top of our souls. With guidance and God's grace we may add many virtues to our souls, and strong bold flavors to our pizza: Pepperoni of Patience, Toppings of Temperance, Chastity Mushrooms (also the name of my upcoming album! Not really, at all).
But we can also create a garbage pie. We can add sins, corruptions, cabbage on our pizza and dirty socks can line our crust. It's our choice. In choosing to reject or accept the will of the chef, God, we can make a beautiful pizza or a horrid one.
So, as our bellies are now full of the yumness of pizza, let's strategize on how to make a good pie:
- Keep it simple- restrict to what you know is good, and keep all the bad stuff out of the kitchen! You can't put moldy pears on your pizza if you throw them out with the rest of the garbage.
- Be attentive- Don't let your pie burn in the oven, keep a watch over it and make sure it doesn't end up in the fire forever
- Add toppings from Papa's picks - no, not Papa John, but Big Papa, the Father! God has given us virtures to be achieved in the person of Christ and with the Holy Spirit's gifts, choose from these known winners and build as many as you can
- Share- as good as a pizza is by yourself, it's much better to share it with others. Your soul is a beautiful pizza and is meant to be shared with your loved ones and with God. Give Him glory in the witness of your pizza-ness.
So, that's a little more fleshed out, I'd write more but I'm about to pass out. Hope this made *some* kind of sense and if not, oh well, at least you may have the idea to order a pizza.
Enjoy your pie!
Good night and God bless you all!
~Onecatholicguy
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