Why Salt?

I love salt! That might even be an understatement. My earliest memories of food were always the saltiest: tortilla chips, Ritz crakers, and my all time favorite Rold Gold Pretzel Rods. My yearning for salt could be due to the fact that I have no sense of smell. Yes. I said NO sense of smell. The scientific name for this is Congenital Anosmia. How I found out I could not smell anything at all was when, as a child, my big sister and I were updating our sticker albums with "scratch 'n sniff" stickers. I thought she was playing a cruel joke by telling me one smelled like root beer. Another like blueberries. And yet another like bananas.

By now the majority of people know that smell and taste are connected. With no sense of smell, food will taste bland, just mere textured glop. This could be a more logical explanation for my heavy sprinkling of salt on meals. However, it wasn't until my wife recently met with a friend's pastor, whom she had never met before, that God opened my eyes to this puzzle. The pastor, being blessed with the gift of prophecy, explained that God told him that in our marriage, one of us was "salt" and the other was "light." My wife instinctively said I am salt just as her friend simultaneously blurted out that she is light.

For centuries salt has been used to flavor and preserve food, and to assist in healing and purifying wounds. In Mark 9:49-50, Jesus said, “For everyone will be tested with fire. Salt is good for seasoning. But if it loses its flavor, how do you make it salty again? You must have the qualities of salt among yourselves and live in peace with each other.” We are authorized by Christ to preserve and spread God's word, and to make others thirst for a deeper relationship with Him. To stay thirsty ourselves. And to live the salt life. Stay salty my friends!