Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Upside down cake (and a bit of seriousness, too)

This is really random, but also (in my opinion) very funny. The other day, I wanted to make a pineapple upside down cake (PUDC) for my Life Group because PUDC is my most FAVORITE cake in the whole wide world. I had all the ingredients, and I was excited to share my favorite cake with my girls who are mostly from China.
After the timer went off, I checked the middle of the cake with a toothpick and it came out clean, so I turned the oven off and waited 10 minutes to flip the cake upside down. When the 10 min. were up, I flipped it. Much to my dismay, the middle of the cake was NOT done, and was about 5 shades lighter than the rest of the cake. Because of the instablity of the middle of the cake, the cake split down the middle. So I had a half-baked, upside-down, cracked cake on my hands. I momentarliy panicked before deciding to get the cake back into the pan to bake if for a bit longer. Do you know how difficult it is to get a half-baked, upside-down, cracked cake back into a cake pan, rightside up???
Anyway, I eventually got it back in, baked it for a while longer, flipped it again, and this time it was done. I just used an old trick of cutting the cake into pieces before taking it to Life Group, and nobody ever knew it had such a disasterous start...until now, when I posted this for EVERYBODY to read!!
On a serious note...something from Job really struck me this week. It's in the middle of Elihu's rant towards Job, sidenote-I don't think Job deserved that, but one thing he says is, "Why don't people say to God, 'I have sinned, but I will sin no more?' or 'I don't know what evil I have done-tell me. If I have done wrong, I will stop at once'?" (Job 34:31,32 NLT). It made me think of just how often I do (or don't) confess my sin-or am aware (or not aware) of my sin. It DID make me aware that I need to confess my sin more-and even practice Spiritual Breathing more.

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