Savoring as an Art Form!

What do you get when you bake chocolate muffins, top them with small mountains of peanut butter mousse frosting, and cool them in the fridge, before dipping them upside down into the type of melted hot chocolate that forms a hard shell over that melt in your mouth icing? Answer: Very, happy, All Things Southern baby czars, wired for sound. I’m pretty sure my daughter and daughter-in-law were ready to paint a bulls-eye on my back last weekend but the grands gave me high marks, and really, who do you think I was aiming to please, anyway?  Y’all are a smart bunch.

One afternoon three and a half-year old Grant and I took a couple of forks and shared one of those muffins together. I could tell he enjoyed the first forkful, but then he got a bite with just the right proportions of muffin, mousse, and chocolate. Grant looked at me with those big beautiful dark eyes dancing in his sweet face and whispered, “Keggie, I want to keep this bite in my mouth all day.” I thought that was the best definition of what it means to savor something I’ve ever heard.

You know, it’d be a waste of your time to tell me or Grant that those cupcakes weren’t super sweet. We tasted them for ourselves! In much the same way, those who learn to savor God’s word for themselves develop a rock solid appreciation of its goodness that can’t be shaken regardless of any worldly arguments against it— and there’s no downside. Consuming chocolate peanut butter sugar laden muffins on a regular basis wouldn’t be good for any of us but God’s words are a win/win. That’s the message of Proverbs 24:13-14, “Eat honey, my son, for it is good and the honeycomb is sweet to your palate. Realize that wisdom is the same for you. If you find it, you will have a future and your hope will never fade.”

Oh, come let us savor the sweet word of God. It’s satisfying today and rewarding tomorrow!

Hugs, Shellie