I enjoy experimenting with new recipes, but often I find it hard tostick to them exactly, usually because I don't have all the rightingredients or I try to make do with what I have. So it was that Ifound myself trying to guess how much dried chillies to put into a dishwhich really called for a whole fresh chilli. Too much and the dishwould be ruined, too little and it would have no flavour.

How much or how little flavour do we add to the world around us, do webrighten people's days, or drag them down? Are we, as someone oncedescribed to me, drains or radiators? It is easy to get so wrapped upin our own world that we forget the effect it is having on others, Ihave been packing boxes in the last week and getting tired and fed up,niggly with those around me definately not a radiator. It wouldn't takemuch though to change things, time to listen, a friendly word ofencouragement, a brighter outlook to add some flavour to the lives ofthose I meet.

Jesus said "You are like salt for the whole human race, but if the saltloses its saltiness there is no way to make it salty again." Matthew 5 vs 13