Part of my morning routine USED TO BE <click email icon>, <click all mailboxes>, <click edit>, <select anything and everything that is in my inbox in search of IMPORTANT emails>,  <click trash>.  All the while rolling my eyes, doing that guttural sigh of annoyance, then the moment passes, and it is over.  TILL TOMORROW!  (what a way to start the day! what was I thinking??)

Today I was on the real computer, not my phone.  Today I decided to put a stop to the morning insanity and UNSUBSCRIBED to a TON of meaningless email ads, subscriptions, deals, and sites that flood my inbox on a daily basis.  It took a while, but as I was doing it, I got to thinking:

I am decluttering aka unsubscribing in efforts to clean up my inbox so that I see what is important.  To see my Bible Study Fellowship emails, to see emails from my family, friends, my son’s preschool, from our church.  I long to be exposed to only things that really MATTER when I look at my inbox.  Which got me to thinking:

What else in my life (not just my inbox) do I need to “unsubscribe” from?  What else is clouding my life (not just my email) from what is MOST important?  What in my life ISN’T God honoring?

I long to be exposed to only things that really MATTER when I look at my at my life (not just my inbox)

What do YOU need to “unsubscribe” from?

Dear God, thank you for bringing to my attention the need to “unsubscribe” from all things clouding my vision of YOU!  Please help my friends, and family and BRex fans to have awakened within them what it is you long for them to “unsubscribe” from should that be your will.  AMEN! (or as Judah would say “Ahh MEAN!”

What does this have to do with baking, decorating and delicious treats?

If you had asked me 6 weeks ago how to make a cake, I would have told you to call Costco and place an order.  If you had persisted and wanted that cake to be baked in your home oven I would have told you which aisle in Walmart the boxed cake mixes could be found though I rarely, at that point, had even ventured to do THAT.

When I decided to make my son’s birthday cake (I didn’t want to pay the hundreds of dollars other people charge to have my son obliterate it, but I did want him to have something special) I didn’t have a recipe.  (Thank you Swan’s Cake Flour for putting the recipe right on the back of the box) I didn’t have a mixer or even a pan.  I was not equipped for the task at hand, but I did have the motivation and curiosity it took to TRY.

My mother-in-law let me borrow her mixer:

Since then, my super amazing and generous friend, Joslyn donated her Sunbeam to BakeosaurusRex.  God is GOOD!

And I put out a little plea on Facebook to borrow a pan.  Many friends responded to my need.  Ultimately I ended up borrowing the one pictured below from my friend Colleen which she since then has donated to BakeosaurusRex.  God is GOOD! (what do you have collected dust in your cabinets? I’d love to clear your clutter!) 

Since that moment, which was now a month ago, God has revealed a talent within me, not even I knew was hiding.  As Confucius said,

Choose a Job You Love, and You Will Never Have To Work a Day in Your Life- Confucius

I do have to find humor in the call though.  I had been praying for willpower and the WANT TO motivation (as suggested in Made to Crave by Lysa TerKeurst) for my health and weight-loss and God answers by given me the opportunity to exercise willpower and to draw closer to him to seek my WANT TO with all these delicious goodies around 24/7.

I had also been praying for assistance and clarity with time management strategies… the answer seems to be that the more you have on your plate the more hours there are in a day as you HAVE to manage the time you were gifted more carefully to accomplish your home, family, BSF, hobbies and BAKING all while putting CHRIST first.

This month has been full of learning and a lot of fun!  Thank you, God for equipping those you call to do Your Will!  -Amen!

Happy Baking,

BakeosaurusRex