I was eating with a group of people from our church (incredible church!) - we do a weekly Bible Study.  Anyway, I have to eat different food because of diabetes and so my bread wasn't gooey, good garlic bread but a wheat roll.  I needed butter!

So I am rooting around through K&B's fridge when B asks, "What do you need?"  "Butter or margarine."

"There's butter there but we keep some on the counter so it is soft."  "Really?  Like you can do that?"

"Sure.  We leave it out all the time."  "Really?"  Then everyone pretty much chimed in about how their moms, grandmoms and they all leave their butter on the counter.  "So how long has is been on the counter?"  "Like a week or so."  "So really if I eat this I will be cool?"

That was Sunday.  Yesterday was a fun filled day of digestive issues that I won't explain in detail.  Let's just say that I am buying stock in Immodium AD.  

I texted my group: "Butter death.  You all are killing me.  Sick all day."

"Sorry you are sick but probably not the butter": K texted back.  "Of course, you are the butter person why would you think it was the butter!?"

Today I am a little butter (okay, give me the gracious chuckle).  Three things for me:

• Personally, if I am in doubt I probably shouldn't.  (Romans 13:23)
• There is so much I don't know like, was it really the butter, was it the length of time that the butter was on the counter, was it something else I ate, did one of my 250 handshakes at church transfer something, etc.  I would err to think conclusively about the cause and really waste time for no real good reason (however, I will probably avoid 2 week, counter-butter the next time. Proverbs 26:11)
• Leadership, there is always the possibility that the gang is wrong. (Matthew 7:13)

Just in case you are curious: Missouri Butter Answer, The Official Land'o Lakes Answer  , and the pros recommend a Butter Bell (what?).