Who knew how much you could learn from the young women on ad eat as much as you like pizza evening.
I thought it would just be a fun evening for the girls, but it turned out to be profound learning experience for me and for them. The girls began piling their plates with Pizza, everything looked so delicious. The also had bar-one milkshakes, except Joanne who ordered a cream soda. I warned them to finish what was on their plates before taking more. My warning was unheeded. As the time drew on and the girls began to feel full and their plates where sill full of pizza, they started to ask can't we take the left overs home. They were surprised when we said no. All except for Joanne who at two slices of pizza and said that was enough. She was the wisest of all last night.
As I sat there looking at the plates filled with pizza that the girls could not take home it occurred to me that this was an analogy for life. It does not matter how much you have materially you can't take it with you when you go home to heavenly father, you can only take those things that have become part of you.
Before we left I asked each girl what they had learned from "eat as much as you like pizza" They said things like - too much food is not good, take things one step at a time and you can't take it with you.
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