Having Cake and Eating It Too...

How many times have we heard "I hate [fill in the blank]". And then almost while the words are still in the bubble above, the same action is taken again to promote more of that same negative feeling?

We are such an entertainment driven, overly comfortable society in many ways. We are grateful to have such an abundance - and yet could it be that we want the comfort, but are going to sleep or are not willing to do the work, fight the good fight, diligently learn... to sustain it?

So often I hear the victim's cry of look at what she did to me... instead of I am so sorry that I treated her that way and I will go and make amends and ask if she will forgive me.

Ownership of the cake let's us eat it too. Blame and whining about the eating the cake prevents us from being able to own it and enjoy eating it.

The second great temptation of the Savior by Satan was turn the bread to stone. It was something like, have some cake and eat it too - DON'T:  buy the seed, til the soil, plant the seed, pull the weeds, water the garden, harvest the wheat, separate the chaff and grain, grind the grain, make and bake the bread, break the bread and eat it. Abuse your power and privilige and get what you want when you want it without price.

Like so many before us who gave us an inheritance of freedom and luxury, may we earn the right to eat our cake and savor it remembering today that we can go buy the flour (or the bread) - because of the hands that provided it. 

Bryan
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