"It doesn't taste like a heart"

-Aaron, on the occasion of making a chocolate cake in the shape of a heart for Valentines Day.
We all quickly assured the disappointed young baker that we could taste the love.
(For some reason that didn't make him feel any better.)

He answered my prayer...

but it wasn't at all how I expected.

just go away and leave me alone

You know what? Just go away. I don't like you and what you do to me. I don't like what you do to me and my relationship with God and other people. I don't like how you pretend to be my boss and tell me what to do and how I listen to you. I don't like your lies and schemes and all that other junk that you use to get your way. No matter how beautiful you and your ideas seem, you and they are ugly and detestable and I want nothing to do with you. So go away and leave me alone.

Don't you know that the great battle has already been won? I don't belong to you and you have been defeated. I am not your slave. Yes, I am still inclined to all evil and I cannot see as well as I should, but you no longer have dominion over me. I belong to Jesus. I have been bought with His blood. He has crushed you, but made me alive. Nothing you can do will change that.
So, leave me alone.

GO AWAY.

I HATE YOU.

hmm.

Until you know that life is war, you cannot know what prayer is for.
-John Piper

Romans 14

For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit... do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food.
Therefore let us not judge one another any more, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother's way.

sigh

The snow is really beautiful, but right now I have a longing for a kabanging thunderstorm.

unconditional love

Of all the hugs I have ever received, Dad's are the best. I love you, Dad.