So yesterday was day 20 in our fast. 20 days! And just when I thought I had made it through my toughest trails, I faced my biggest ever: CUPCAKES! I mean the first few days without coffee were rough but I made it through. My late night snacking binges were hard to fight off too. But nothing had prepared me for cupcakes. Not just any cupcakes either, yellow cake with chocolate frosting, my absolute favorite.
My wife had made them for her class and was taking them to school in the morning. It was hard enough to smell her baking them. It was even harder watching my youngest daughter lick the spoon and bowl, but when I saw those delectable treats all frosted and sprinkled siting on the kitchen counter I almost lost my mind. I could have scarfed all 20 of them in seconds and drowned them in a frothy glass of milk. I held fast. But, my hardest test was yet to come.
It's 10:00pm and everyone in my house is asleep but me and the cupcakes. I am sitting in our living room reading, and I hear them calling my name. "Paul" they say, "no one is watching. No one will miss just one." But I know that once one of those clouds of heaven touches my lips I will not be able to stop. Like the guy in that movie Chocolate, my family would find me in the morning sleeping in a pile of cupcake wrappers with frosting on my lips, shaking from the amount of sugar I had just ingested.
So, despite all of their beckoning and wooing, they could not entice me enough to break my fast. I held strong and to tell you the truth that very day God revealed something to me that I had been praying about. Thank you God for giving me the strength to hold off, but I tell you what, come day 41 there will be cupcakes at my house.
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