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Fried Rice: What To Do With The Broken Pieces

By Bonnie Gray • January 19, 2011 • 9 Comments

The New Year bubbles with opportunities, but what do you do with leftover insecurities?

One of my favorite comfort foods is fried rice.

If you’ve never made this Asian fave, think of it as pasta for Chinese people. It’s versatile. You can whip it up in a skillet, pan, wok, or whatever. The key is sauteing each ingredient separately and then combining it all at the end.

One advantage that fried rice has over it’s Italian cousin may be this — the ingredients that make up the best fried rice are leftovers: day old rice, frozen veges and diced sausage.

Nothing is wasted. Stuff usually considered second class citizens in your fridge are thrown together to conduct a symphony that makes your taste buds sing.

At a time when everyone is busy cooking up their new year resolutions, I’m opening up my soul and I find leftovers.

I’m excited about this new chapter in my life, but those fragments of failed attempts, insecurities and old thought patterns seem to clutter up the pages.

What can I do?

A Story

I don’t have a 10 step plan to share with you, but I can offer you a story that somehow answered my heart’s query.

(To be continued…)

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  • Reply Heather Conrad January 19, 2011 at 6:27 am

    Thanks so much for this today Bonnie. Funny, we just had fried rice for dinner last night, it is one of my favs! Just had one of those patience-testing mornings, and God simply reached out to me through you. I pray you enjoy a fabulous day in Him!
    .-= Heather Conrad´s last blog ..Sky Zone =-.

  • Reply ed cyzewski January 19, 2011 at 9:40 am

    What a clever metaphor to use! Thanks Bonnie

    Oh, and I love friend rice.

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  • Reply David @ Red Letter Believers January 19, 2011 at 1:21 pm

    As a boy, my mother always had fried rice for us. And it was a hodge podge. Loved it with a little soy, oh boy!

    You’ve got us thinking now … and hungry!
    .-= David @ Red Letter Believers´s last blog ..You made me think =-.

  • Reply Jeri @godsdreamsforme January 19, 2011 at 4:10 pm

    Can’t do fried rice without sesame oil and shoyu. You’re so right about left over rice. 2 day old refrigerated rice thrown into that pan is amazing!

    We take the old parts, leftovers of our lives into our present and future even when we hadn’t intended to. God truly does create a symphony with every note of our experiences.

    How beautiful! Thank You Bonnie 😀
    .-= Jeri @godsdreamsforme´s last blog ..She Can Laugh Now =-.

  • Reply Amy Nabors January 19, 2011 at 5:24 pm

    Left you a comment there. Your words always speak. Thank you!
    .-= Amy Nabors´s last blog ..Piano Practice =-.

  • Reply Beth Werner Lee January 19, 2011 at 10:29 pm

    You, today, and Kat over at InspiredToAction telling us balance is a process of adjusting…yes between you both I am upheld.

    Fried Rice. Hm, I was married to an ABC for 7 years in 97 and it was on a short term outreach in Cardiff, Wales at the Chinese church there that I learned to cook fried rice! That was a watershed trip for me. We’d studied the word and I’d opened my heart about not having a baby, and then a teammate showed me what to do with the leftover rice from dinner (it was 11pm) and she gave me courage! The next morning we went out for more eggs and I made breakfast for everyone who’d spent the night and they all called me mom. Broken, mom.

    Now my daughter’s 10 and I’m weeping inside because we had an altercation this morning (over spelling and writing) and I’m so ashamed that I lost my temper. Broken again, faced again with my sinful incomplete parts. God help me, hold me, adjust me to your ways. I am so lost without you. Mix me up right, Lord!
    .-= Beth Werner Lee´s last blog ..update 1-17-11 =-.

  • Reply Kari January 20, 2011 at 5:40 am

    I love fried rice – I live in Thailand and it is quick and easy and tasty.
    great story – i joined over at (in) courage.
    .-= Kari´s last blog ..corner view–organic =-.

  • Reply jake January 20, 2011 at 5:25 pm

    Bonnie, we don’t need steps. We can’t abstract them from stories and leave the narrative behind because they won’t work like that. I’m reminded of Donald Miller’s “Searching For God Knows What”…. a great read where he talks about the power of narrative…. something I think you’d enjoy!
    .-= jake´s last blog ..Huge Church Lostish Souls =-.

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