By Glenn Dromgoole

May is National Hamburger Month, so today I’m writing about hamburgers – and math. Two of my favorite subjects! Well, there’s a faith aspect, too.

We all love hamburgers, but we don’t all love them the same way. I like mine with cheese, with mayo (but not too much mayo), with lettuce, tomato, pickle, onion, on a toasted bun. One meat patty, not two. 

My wife takes hers without cheese, lettuce and meat patty only. Maybe a little barbecue sauce.

How about you? How do you like yours?

Here’s where the math comes in. If a burger joint has ten different burger styles, with ten different toppings you can add, and several different sauces – that comes to more than one million different ways to have a hamburger.

One million.

And now the faith part. 

We’re all different, not just in hamburgers but in so many, many other more important ways. There are not a million ways – there are billions of ways — in which we are different.

And God loves all of us just the way we are. We don’t have to take our hamburgers any particular way for God to love us. We don’t even have to like hamburgers at all.

He already loves us. He loves each or us as he loves all of us. He loves me. He loves you. He loves us all.

Mayo or mustard or, yes, even ketchup. With or without onions. A slice of tomato, or a helping of jalapenos.  Meat-based or plant-based. Fast food or steakhouse or home grilled. Republican or Democrat or Independent. Black or White or Brown. Rich or poor or in between. 

God says, “Have it your way. Do it your way. I love you.”

Happy National Hamburger Month. 

Glenn Dromgoole once celebrated National Hamburger Month by – more math — eating 31 hamburgers in 31 days. He and his wife Carol own Texas Star Trading Company.