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Thursday, Liz Stewart, head of our Office of Cool Stuff to Build Community, will host a crawfish boil. I cannot help but wonder who will get a descendant of Pierre the Dancing Crawfish on his or her plate.
Pierre the crawfish was in a ditch near Mamou, dancing. He loved to dance and the other crawfish loved to watch him. Suddenly, out of the sky, fell a big net. Because Pierre was a well-educated crawfish, he realized this meant one thing.
He was going to Hollywood! All it really meant was that Sammy was out crawfishing, and scooped up Pierre and about 200 of his neighbors.
Sammy took his sack of crawfish home and starting a big pot of water to boil. Then he threw in spices. Then he threw in more spices. When the water was right, he threw in some crawfish. That’s when Pierre realized this was not Hollywood–this was hot water!
So Pierre started dancing. The other crawfish, being generally polite, moved out the way so Pierre could get more room to entertain Mr. Sammy.
You can imagine Sammy’s astonishment when he realized what he had found. “Mama!,” he cried. “Turn up that radio. We got us a dancing crawfish!”
Mrs. Sammy, who was unusually quick for her disposition, stood at the kitchen door amazed. “Oh Sammy, a dancin’ crawfish–he’s a gift from God! Children! Get in here right now. Your Papa found us a dancing crawfish!”
Sammy’s beautiful children fell all over each other getting through the back screen and into the kitchen. All four stood in wonder and amazement. The family watched as Pierre kept perfect rhythm to the Zydeco beat.
After four songs, poor Pierre was worn out. He tried to keep up with the fifth tune, but he was failing.
Sammy picked him up off the table and tossed him in the pot. The kids ran back outside, and eight minutes later, Pierre looked just like all the other crawfish.
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and the moral of the story is…? Well, to me this could be a great analogy of the things that we, the people in the church, make to be momentary fads. Whether the fad be a new “super-Christian member” to our church that will change everything, a new “best book ever” (except the Bible of course), or a new song that would make the most harden of criminals cry, the church is full of fads instead of a steady relationship that is grounded in the Lord. These fads, although for the moment are seemingly amazing rarely turn out to sustain the life we thought they would. Either we get tired of them or they get tired of us and the search for the next great thing begins, only to surely come and go like all the other fads.
Comment by Matthew Olszewski May 12, 2008 @ 12:48 amI can’t help but over spiritualize crawfish but…
it makes we wonder how many of us are doing the Mardis Gras mambo of trying to get on staff at the next biggest show only to be worn out and in hot water with the Lord.
Not that big shows are wrong but since we are now declining we might want to
Comment by Michael Hitch May 11, 2008 @ 5:18 pmput on more Crawfish and Zydeco and figure out what the Lord will have us do.