Ok, so this may be silly, but it was not insignificant to me. I love Bruegger’s Bagels and my favorite bagel variety are their pretzel bagels. They are a limited item, so they come and go occasionally over the course of the year. Thursday I happened to stop in the new Bruegger’s on Six Forks Road in North Hills. I hadn’t been in this location before, and I was headed to a meeting on that side of town, so I stopped by. Well, they had pretzel bagels. I was overjoyed.
Why you might ask, do I like them so much, and how can this possibly be a holy moment? Good questions! I think they taste good, first of all. But more importantly they remind me of my semester in Germany. There was a bakery that I walked by each day on my way to class. I would often stop there for breakfast and order a Brezlenbrot mit butter (pretzel bread with butter). It was a pretzel roll, cut in half with butter inside. It was heavenly, and it is hard to find in the US.
Whenever I think about my semester in Germany, I think about all the times God answered my prayers, all the times I saw God at work, and the amazing journey I had there. My calling to ministry really began while I was abroad, so it is a place and time I hold very dear. I always enjoy little reminders of this special place and time, and Bruegger’s Pretzel bagels take me back to Heidelberg, if even for a few moments. It was a holy time, so maybe these bagels are mini-holy moments… even while they are holey, lol.
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