Dessert

I’ve been thinking a lot about dessert lately. Of all those wonderful little delicacies that make dinner worth eating. Of a new plate with sweet treats that bring pleasure to my pallet. It doesn’t even matter what comes on the plate, really, unless of course it has something I don’t like on it and then I’m sure to have an opinion.

Why have I been thinking about this so much? I guess I feel like my plate is empty. A lot has been taken off recently. Good things and bad things, some hard to let go and others not so much so. It seems as if I sit at a table before a plate on which there is nothing left (let me stress the word “seems” here; I know full and well that my plate is not completely empty – it never is totally, but I speak of feelings within that I can best express figuratively through creative writing). Now this can be a bad thing or it can be a good thing. Bad because I could begin replacing what has been taken off with that which isn’t supposed to be there. I could fill the plate just for the sake of filling it. But it also could be a good thing. Good because God will fill that plate with the good gifts from His hand if I am patient and wait for Him. If He has taken anything off my plate, it is for the purpose of bringing Him glory, for making me more like Him, and for showing His love to a lost and broken world. It is for the purpose of emptying me of me and filling me to all fullness with Him. And that’s dessert. That’s the best held back until after the meal has been eaten.

So I’m thinking a lot about dessert lately. I look forward to what He’s going to bring me. I anticipate the beautiful China that will hold the sweet treats chosen by the Chef especially for me. I can’t wait to bite into each tasty morsel. And I may just get fat waiting since I keep dreaming of all the sweets I will get to eat which makes me very unfiguratively hungry. No matter - I am still looking forward to dessert.