I went to my first Crawfish Boil. "Pat you are from Louisiana, and you have never eaten a Crawfish?" You bet your boots I had not. I never really felt a need to eat something that people caught out of a ditch. Anyway I finally did, but these were farm raised Crawfish.  My brother who is a retired Chemical Engineer,  and has a big, and beautiful home, with a lot of pecan trees, flowers and a garden invited us over to his house for a Crawfish Boil.  Joe looked at me and said, "how do you eat them?"  My answer was "you're asking me.?  Well, when we got there I went to the back porch and saw a very large container of live Crawfish. Stupid me said, "There alive?"  My nephew said, they are fixing to not be.

OH Kayyyyyy. They had a large pot of boiling water, in which they added sausage, potatoes, onion, and corn on the cob.  Very good, I thought.  At lest there will be something else to eat.  Then I saw my brother add a whole large bottle of hot sauce, my stomach began to question me then. But now I am one to try anything once, my daughter Anna, has even gotten me to eat sushi, so let's grab a crawfish and eat away.  I was told not to eat the head just the tail. Fine, but how do you get the meat out of the tail? I learned quick that you grab the head and pitch it, then pull the tail away from the head, twist the tail and the meat comes out. The first one I did more than the tail meat came out.  They said that is the fat in the head. Well, it looked more like something else.  But I tried it again. That time the tail came out and did not have the fat and vein in it. 

I had learned to peel a crawfish. There is another reason I needed to learn.  My 91 year-old mama was sitting beside me and she could not peel them because of the chipped bone in her hand. So there were four of us peeling as fast as we could to put crawfish tails on her plate. She was laughing and having a good time, so I am glad we all got together.

 By the way this was her third crawfish boil this month. And she loves them HOT! Now some Cajuns like to suck the stuff out of the head, not me, and I did not see any of our group doing it either.  But do you know how many crawfish you have to eat to get full?  A lot.  The part that you eat is the size of a small shrimp or smaller.  That is the reason you put all the other things in the pot to eat. But when you get the hang of it, they are really good. 

I am looking forward to my next crawfish boil. I put a sausage on my plate, took a bite and smoke came out of my ears. Thank God I was drinking a large glass of water.  I learned you do not drink caffeine when you eat spicy foods.  The caffeine will just makes it hotter.  So, you now have heard of Pat's First Crawfish Escapades.

God's Love Is Unconditional. He will reach down, even when you are not able to reach up. Can you say that you also show this kind of love to others around you?" --Pastor Pat Aman

1 Corinthians 13: 1-13, 1. "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become as a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

2. And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not Love, I am nothing.

3. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

4. Love suffers long and is kind, love does not envy, love does not parade itself, is not puffed up.

5. Does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil.

6. Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth.

7. Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies they will fail, whether there are tongues, they will cease, whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.

9. for we know in part and we prophesy in part.

10. but when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

11. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

12. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

13. And now abide, faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love."

Joyfully, In The Master's Service
 Blessings, Prayers and Love,
 Pastor Pat

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