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| Drawing copyright 2013 Ron Levellie |
While
eating baby-back ribs recently, I noticed how dinner napkins are shrinking.
It’s bad enough that manufacturers inject air into the napkins to make them appear plump. Now they’re decreasing
their size. One used to cover my whole lap; these days it barely fits on the
top third of a thigh.
Candy
bars have also been shrinking with the times. Years ago, it took me five bites
to eat my Gooey-Wooey bar. Today I have to get out Grandma’s magnifying glass
to gaze at its loveliness before I down it in two nibbles.
And
have you been as shocked as I have how ice-cream containers dwindled
overnight from half a gallon to one and
a half quarts? We used to serve ice cream with our birthday cakes. Nowadays we
simply wave the carton over each plate as a sweet remembrance of more generous
times.
Coffee-can shrinkage is another travesty. Remember
when you bought coffee by the pound? These days it comes in 12 or 13 oz.
packages, for the same price as before. Soon they’ll be selling it by the cup and
charging $3.50 a slurp. Oh, they’re already doing that.
TV
shows take up only forty-five minutes instead of
fifty-two. Today’s cars are the size of my grandson’s scooter. Even Band-Aids
barely cover a boo-boo anymore.
I’m
so relieved that Jesus’ love never shrinks or diminishes in strength. Jesus
stays the same year after year, century after century, forever—even if my
favorite pants shrink to the size of a dinner napkin.
© From My Heart to Yours: Although I
tend to base the worth of an item on its size, that doesn’t matter when it
comes to problems. God is bigger than any or all of them. Next time one
threatens to steal my joy, I need to remind myself of the huge, powerful hand of
my Father.
The above is a chapter from my humor/inspirational book, The Heart of Humor, available on Amazon or by contacting me at jeanettelevellie@gmail.com
Are you bugged by this shrinking trend? What large items do you miss the most?
