Chocolate. One of the world’s most favorite flavors.
Let’s have some fun today and forget the troubles of this earth for a few minutes
Did you know today, July 7 is World’s Chocolate Day? Now October 28 is National Chocolate Day, but I am all for celebrating with chocolate more than once, right?
In fact, I shared last year some interesting trivia about this delicious taste. https://healthyspirituality.org/chocolate/
One of my most requested topics as speaker and retreat leader is called “What Chocolate Taught Me about God.” This the story I tell at the beginning of the talk and I thought today would be a great day to share this:
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What Chocolate Taught Me about God
God decided one week to be creative.
After the first day of work when he returned to heaven, Michael, the archangel, asked him, “What did you do today, Lord?
He answered, “I made light and darkness, and it is good.”
After a second day of work, God sat down with Michael and told Michael that on that day he separated the waters and made the sky and is was good.
The third day it was getting rather late, Michael was worried. It isn’t like God to be late, you know. Finally the Lord appeared, skipping and happy, showing all sorts of signs of joy.
“What did you do today Lord that made you so happy?”
“On this third day, I separated the water and made the dry ground appear, and then all the vegetation began to grow.”
“Oh,” said Michael, “all the brown stuff on your hands and face, is dirt then?
“Oh no,” said God, “this is chocolate. It is great stuff and it is very, very good.”
“How are you ever going to top that creation Lord?”
“Mmmm, let me think about that for a few days,” replied God.
On the fourth day God made the sun and the moon and it was good.
Still thinking, the fifth day, He made animals, birds, creatures of the sea and it was good.
And on the sixth day, He said, “let us make man in our own image.” And He did make man and woman and gave them all the things of the earth to take care of. The Bible even mentions God gave them all seed bearing plants. Genesis 1:29 – “I give you every seed bearing plant on the face of the earth and every plant that has fruit with see in it.” – that is chocolate plant.
He looked over everything he had made and it was good, so very good.
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Prayer
I praise the Lord for His creativity – snails, sea horses, and stink bugs.
I praise the Lord for His wisdom – the sun to provide light and life and waters to nourish us.
I praise the Lord for starting it all – the order – rhythm of the tides, the pattern of the seasons, and beauty in His rich color palette.
I praise God for the lessons I learn in the waiting and rest of winter.
I praise the Lord for spring – time of new births, fresh air, and renewed spirit.
I praise the Lord for seeing to the details that enrich our lives beyond measure – the smell of a newborn baby, the smile of a 99-year-old friend, the laughter of families together, and yes, the yummy taste as sweet chocolate as it melts in our mouths.
I praise the Lord for who He is – Creator God.
How will you celebrate chocolate today? What is bringing a smile to your soul in this current season?
Hi Jean,
Now I’m wishing I had some chocolate in the house! Thanks for this devotional thought here. 🙂
Thanking God with you for family: my sons in the house right now, discussing games with their dad, my husband; health; summer beauty of flowers new each day… and so much more.
How are you? How have you and your family been during this coronavirus time?
Jennifer Dougan
http://www.jenniferdougan.com
yes this post made me hungry too. I love the idea of God creating chocolate. What a delight.
I hope you are well too!
Jean,
Dark chocolate 🙂 Wow, you have a 99 year old friend…I bet she? has a lot of great stories. Thanks for sharing your list of gratitude. Thankful to be able to paint or play with paint 🙂 Blessings to you and your family 🙂
She has since I orginally wrote this died but lived 99.5 years and was a great friend. I miss her greatly. We do have a friend who is 104.5 now and doing pretty well. I am grateful for their friendships, as of yours. Blessings!!
Ah … you had me at word one, Jean. And I love your list of praises at the end. Reading them made me smile and remember how beautiful gratitude shared is …
Glad to know you are a fellow chocolate lover! Yes being grateful for such a delicious taste in life. Have a blessed weekend and add a bit of chocolate
My mouth was watching just from the photo! I’m so thankful God made chocolate. It’s my favorite. 🙂
I do love chocolate too !! There HAS to be a God – who else could have created such a wonderful flavor, right? LOL
A delicious post, Jean! I’m with you on celebrating chocolate twice a year–maybe we could find a few excuses to celebrate even more often! Let’s see, Hershey’s birthday, Ghiradelli’s birthday…Nestle’s birthday…We could come up with quite a few! As for today, perhaps I’ll have two squares of dark chocolate tonight instead of just one.
A delicous post – aren’t you funny!! and love your birthday idea too – yes to more often. LOL. Hope you enjoyed your snack.
Life is indeed a “box of chocolates”…some abt break your teeth and some soft and yummy…some we like…some we dont like…
Thank you
Oh no, don’t break a tooth – and I agree there are some in that box that just aren’t my taste either. I did enjoy Forrest Gump – it was one of the movies I rewatched when we are all shelter at home ordering.
Oh, Jean, how much I needed these happy thoughts today! Think I’ll celebrate with some M&Ms. 🙂
Blessings!
Sending lots of happy thoughts your way, Martha and yummy ones too. M & M sounds like a great snack.
What a great post and such fun facts on chocolate. Dark chocolate is my favorite! Today we celebrate our 29th wedding anniversary and will include chocolate in our celebration. Thanks Jean.
Glad you liked the post. I needed to write something light and fun this week. Dark chocolate is great and one of my favorites too. Happy anniversary! congrats!
I enjoy chocolate. One of my favorite chocolates is Milky Way Caramels. Yummy! In this current season, the laughter of our grandson( almost 3 years old) brings great joy.
anything with caramel is high on my list too. I love sugar free Wrethers. Reminds me of my dad who used to always have them on hand. I am following now in his footsteps. But you brought up one of the greatest joys – the sounds of a grandchild laughter, That made me smile, So true!