Dear Citizens and Ragacupcakes of The Kingdom of Kingdoms...

I woke this morning with the word "fill" on my mind. Unfortunately it had nothing to do with pastries, although some sweet vanilla cream hiding inside a pillowy morsel is currently dancing and chuckling along through the streets of my brain. Maybe today you can join me in meditating on the word "fill", "filled", "filling", and the like. Maybe you can be "filled" with God's presence, His love, His extravagant blessings. Or maybe you can "fill" a fellow cupcake or stranger with kind and soothing words. Maybe you need to let go of something that is currently "filling" your mind and heart...something like worry or anger or an obsession with sugary confections containing partially hydrogenated oils. My good friend Ozzy Chambers touched on this most recently when he wrote:

Even the weakest saint can experience the power of the deity of the Son of God, when he is willing to "let go." But any effort to "hang on" to the least bit of our own power will only diminish the life of Jesus in us. We have to keep letting go, and slowly, but surely, the great full life of God will invade us, penetrating every part. Then Jesus will have complete and effective dominion in us, and people will take notice that we have been with Him.

In Honor Of Easter...

I decided to boil my pants (like a bunny) and then color them (like an easter egg).

Sea Glass and Wax Giraffes

Ilk, as in kind
Kinfolk, as in a collection of relatives
Kindred Spirits, as in Anne of Avonlea
The Elks, as in Speiglerachi Pop!
Query, as in "why is everything you do gay?"
Quarry, as in rock candy and quartz crystals