Grandma Ruth would stand there in the kitchen and say it gravelly, her hands on her hips, like that could keep her together and standing.
“Touch that and die.”
Barbara Ruth Morton, she knew pastry and pecan pies and turkey with stuffing and she knew that there is a consuming of sweet things that ruins your appetite for the main thing. I can still taste her glazed hams with scalloped potatoes. The bent woman might have had a one room school house education, but she knew if she could keep us from some things, she could give us an appetite for the real thing.
Ruin your appetite with stuff and you have no appetite for Christ.
-- Ann Voskamp, North American Lent: When You Want to have an Appetite for More of God
