“Snap Crackle Pop & Knuckle Sandwiches”

“Snap Crackle Pop & Knuckle Sandwiches” “Thumbs Up Puts The Fight Back In! Hands Down!“ What? Well, when my girl was very young, her Grandpa would always say, “You want a knuckle sandwich?” to her and she would so giggle and do it back. One time in the grocery store, she looked up from the cart, (about 1 ½ years old) and said to a lonely sad looking man we passed by in the aisle, “you want a knuckle sandwich?” He was so taken by her and laughed so freely that you just knew he had been waiting for a long time for someone to notice he was alive. She inspired his day. Just by talking to him. By paying attention. It put the fight, the life, back into him. So, my story today is about inspiring and knuckles. So, what’s the photo all about? No, I’m not cracking my knuckles to get ready for a fight. Just getting them loosened up for a “thumbs up”. You know? Help put the fight BACK IN someone. Encourage someone with a thumbs up! Crack your knuckles to prepare to encourage. To inspire. To put the fight back in, not fight amongst. We can either be putting people down and thumbing our noses up? Or we can be lifting people up with a thumbs up? Do you perspire to inspire (put the fight back in someone) or just perspire to fight? I know that sometimes it may be hard to give someone a thumbs up when all they do is make you want to fight. Oh snap! Then, you can feel your brain crackle and your veins pop! Next your knuckles! Right? We all have those folks in our lives. Sometimes, they are even us. What? Yep! Us. But, loving the unlovely or unlovable or unlikeable is what it’s all about. It’s easy to love those that love us first. Sometimes people fight and act nasty, mean and abrasive because they have no fight left in them. Take a chance. Inspire someone to get back in life. Put the fight back in them. Just take time to care. God will do the rest. He can do some mighty mighty things with knuckles and fists when they are used to put the fight in not take the fight out. It’s a snap! And, it’ll keep you from cracking up and popping veins. Have a fun day. That sound you just heard? That was my knuckles going snap crackle pop! You want a knuckle sandwich? PIMP LOL. No, just kidding. I got my thumbs up. Consider yourself encouraged and inspired. Now, go put the fight back in someone else. The right kind of fight. Remember, thumbs up puts the fight back in, hands down. Life is not always a snap. More like a crackle and a pop, but encouragement can work wonders. Oh snap!  Trace