Croutons And Juice Boxes

When the Savior first instituted the Sacrament, He commanded His disciples to eat bread and drink wine in remembrance of His body and blood. Later, when Christ was restoring His church through the prophet Joseph Smith, He revealed, "For, behold, I say unto you, that it mattereth not what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink when ye partake of the sacrament, if it so be that ye do it with an eye single to my glory—remembering unto the Father my body which was laid down for you, and my blood which was shed for the remission of your sins." We still use bread to remember the sacrifice of Christ's body, but we now use water instead of wine to remember Christ's blood. And I'm sure we've all heard stories of Bishops on campouts who have resorted to pop tarts and 7Up in a pinch. Just like when partaking of the Sacrament and having to make substitutions from the "correct" way, so too can our lives require a certain amount of improvisation and substitution from what we may think of as the "correct" way. As long as our eye is single to the Lord's glory and we remember Christ and His sacrifice, the Savior doesn't care if we use bread and wine or pizza and chocolate milk. By the same token, as long as our eye is single to the Lord's glory and we always remember the Savior and what He's done for us, then the Savior doesn't care whether or not we're living that cookie cutter perfect LDS life. It doesn't matter to Him whether or not we went on a mission, or our mission got cut short, whether or not we've been married once or five times or not at all, whether we've got one kid or a dozen or never had kids, whether we got called to be the Stake President or the sunbeams teacher, whether we go to the temple five times a week or once a year. We may sometimes feel that the best we can offer up as Sacraments to the Lord are croutons and juice boxes, but if we do it with our eye single to the glory of the Lord and we do it in remembrance of the Sacrifice He made, then it doesn't matter to Him and it shouldn't matter to us. So what if our gospel path looks different from everyone else's? If we're doing it for the right reasons, then our sacrifices and our Sacraments are acceptable to the Lord.