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She Takes the Cake  

If you live beyond the reach of a Portillo's restaurant, I pity you.  Not just for your lack of access to their unequaled Italian beef sandwiches, but also for your dwarfed understanding of what a chocolate cake really can be.

I accept (even anticipate) your skepticism.  But be assured my chocolate cake claim is far from exaggerated.  Just check the buzz online.

So there we were, at our local Portillo's, sharing pieces of this fabulous fabled cake with our daughter and son-in-law and their three children.  Their eldest had just received her three-year Sparky Awana award and we were celebrating--big time.

Two year old Lucy wolfed down her half, worked on my wife's, then dug into mine.  As the wonderful wedge dwindled, there was one bite left.  The arc of my arm swooshed past Lucy's shoulder (she was nestled on my lap not so much out of affection as for better access to the cake: sitting higher = reaching farther).  Just before my fork plunged in, her little index finger wagged twice over the remaining cake as she mumbled (whilst chewing a large mouthful) “that's my bite.”

We learned long ago when Lucy declares a thing, it is so.  Do not question.  Do not doubt.  So I speared the last of the lusciousness, poked it in her mouth and smiled at the boldness of her claim. You might say—she took the cake.

As in love with that cake as Lucy appeared to be, your heavenly Father is even crazier about you.  When he thinks about you, He smiles.  When God looks at you, ponders you, says your name--He does so with an intensity far greater than Lucy's and declares, “That's MY daughter....that's MY son!  You are mine. Mine!”  

And when God declares a thing, it is so.  Do not question.  Do not doubt.   Just savor the sweetness of His love.

God says, "I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.”  

--Jeremiah 31:3

 

 

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