A Smattering of Thought

I wonder what it would look like to work in my very own bakery?   Would I really walk through the day on a cloud of flour dust, breathing in the wonderful aroma of warm almond or would I stumble over scattered pots and mixing bowls in an attempt to beat the angry buzzer on the oven before my red velvet cupcakes turned to a deep maroon? {phone rings and brings me back to reality}   Hmm...maybe one day.   However, if you are in the area and need some homemade cupcakes, let me know! I don't fancy myself an expert pasty chef and fondant/gum paste are not my friends, but a good, moist cake with buttery frosting I can do! Here is a sample of some things I have created.   On this blistery cold day, a little sugar might brighten our mood!

Have you ever wondered at the vastness of our galaxy?   Have you wondered how big the earth is in comparison to its surroundings?   Louie Giglio did an amazing job with the video below.  If you have not seen this video, please take time to watch it.  If you have children, bring them in and watch it together. How Great is Our God by Louie Giglio WOW!  I mean really WOW!   Did you feel as insignificant I as did?  We are this small blip on a golf ball in the vastness of the galaxy, and yet this amazing, Creator God made us in His image.  He made us with the intention of a relationship.  He thought about us, we were not created by accident or chance or mishap, it was intentional.   Though I cognitively know this, my sinfulness takes over and I think He does not care, does not listen or is not aware of my trials.  Oh how wrong I am.  Louie closes with a passage from Isaiah, read it below.   ...

It is hard to believe that 20 years have passed since I escaped graduated high school.  Many study halls & algebra classes were spent daydreaming about what my life would look like as “an adult”.  A beautiful house with a white picket fence, a handful of impeccably dressed and well-behaved children frolicking on the lush green grass while my hot handsome husband brings  me a glass of lemonade while I blissfully lounge on the hammock during a warm spring day {ignoring the mound of laundry and dinner burning in the oven}.   Ahh…this is the life! Okay, so maybe not reality, but it was a daydream!  Most teen girls envision themselves married with a family, or at least I did.  I certainly did not picture my life single and living on my own.  Each of these pictures can be electrifyingly freeing or devastatingly hindering.  Neither one is picture perfect.  Neither one is better than the other one.  As I look at my prese...