Seek Its Way Home

While I was staying with my parents this Christmas, there was a curious incident of the sticky honey bear squeeze bottle.

My last morning there, my father started telling me about the sticky mess on the top of the honey bear bottle. He was angry about it and told me how he cleaned it up by putting it under the water faucet and washing it off. Then drying it off and closing the lid.

He said, “you know how it got that way? When you turn the bottle upside down and squeeze it, the honey comes out. Then, we you are finished, you turn it right side up and a thin string of honey will hang from the tip of the jar to what you put the honey on. That string will break and seek its way home to the top of the jar where it was squeezed from. It will form a drop of honey and run down the side of the jar. Then it gets all messy and when you go to pick up the jar, you get sticky all over you. You need to keep the sticky with the sticky!”

His eyes were big and his voice was deep and loud. This is the kind of thing that scared me as a child.

I thought to myself, “you need to ‘seek your way home’ to heaven ASAP.”

I told my sister what he said and she said, “Yeh, he always had a problem with messy jar lids.”