Blog 186 – 12.16.15

You Really Can Have Your Cake And Eat It Too

The saying goes, “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.” But Ole Skewed View Dave has a different take on that – Surprise, Surprise, Not! I still remember as a child thinking when I first heard that expression that what is the sense of having a piece of cake if you cannot eat it. I just could not get my head or my cake loving tummy around the concept. Finally an irritated teacher explained to me that if you eat the piece of cake it is gone and you no longer have it. But that is not what you said. Well, that’s what they meant by it.

If I understand a little bit of science correctly “Matter cannot be destroyed.” There is a great lie that ego tries to get us to buy into, namely that there is a great shortage, not enough to go around. Ego (pardon the capital letter, little ego does not deserve one) is a great fear monger. What do people do when they are afraid there  is not enough? They hoard. An example of this that I have seen at most every company I ever worked at with office employees has to do with office supplies, you know, paper clips, pens, pencils, etc. Usually there is a supply cabinet and most companies have one person designated to keep it stocked. I have been that person and it is a never ending job because most everyone keeps a stash of extra everything in their desk like they are going to quit making pens and paper clips.

But back to cake. Cake is a renewable resource. They are going to make more. At the McKee bakery alone Little Debbie is cranking out enough little cakes to feed every hungry child in this world many times over. And if they don’t sell off the shelves by their due date they are thrown away. It is a sad truth that enough food is thrown away each day still wrapped and edible that the only excuse for anybody to be hungry anywhere is little ego and his lie or one of them anyway. Sometimes the food sent to help the poor is diverted to make someone’s hoarded pile a little higher.

Marie Antoinette is supposed to have said when told the poor people had no bread, “Let them eat cake.” That line was used as an excuse to remove her pretty head from her shoulders in the populist revolution later. But historian think this young uneducated girl was not being mean but that she really thought that was the solution because the palace kitchen was always full of cakes.

Friends there is no shortage of love, or help, or cake or anything really. We just need to quit being afraid and just take a few paper clips and a couple of pens and we would soon find that there is more than enough to go around. That is the real meaning of the Bible story about the Debbie cakes and the fish sticks. Sorry I mean the loaves and the fishes – WHEN WE SHARE WHAT WE HAVE THERE IS ALWAYS MORE THAN ENOUGH.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White