Dessert Anyone?

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

There’s no time like the present – for peace.

B. Unabashed Christian:

A Psalm

Holy One,

I see your glory wherever I turn my eyes – and in my eyes, too.
I think I see you in everything, for there is glory in all you have created – even in me.
I live in awe of your wonders, for I cannot overlook them
I relish your greatness; I revel in your goodness.
Amen

C. Unquoting Jesus:

“Come on up and see me some time.”

[He didn’t say it. Or perhaps Mae had a word from on high…]

D. Blog: Improper Dessert Food
(for Rina)

Peanut butter does not belong in desserts.

Having been nurtured on them as a child, I like peanut butter in sandwiches. I will still take a break on occasion from a low-cholesterol diet to eat that peanut butter and something sandwich. But whoever came up with the idea of peanut butter in desserts must have had a craving for clogged arteries or been desperate to drive her husband from the house by serving it after the anchovy soup, deep fried okra and spam on garlic bread.

I often receive comments about how young I look for my age. Even after I show my driver’s license, people have a hard time believing I’m 60 years old. Well, it’s true. And I attribute my youthful countenance to the fact that I never eat peanut butter in a dessert. Peanut butter cookies? Yuck! Peanut butter pie? Could I please have an apple instead? Peanut butter ice cream? No, thanks. I'm watching my weight.

No, you cannot fool me. Desserts are sweet. Peanut butter belongs on bread or on an index finger, not in a cake, cookie or pie or pudding or jello (some fool must have tried it by now). I think it’s all a conspiracy by peanut growers to expand their reach into our arteries, to fool our tastebuds into accepting a flavor that does not belong in our desserts. If God intended peanut butter desserts, Eve would have handed some to Adam. Might have been a good idea – perhaps he wouldn’t have been able to swallow it and bring on the world’s misery.

But the worst, the absolute worst, is mixing peanut butter and chocolate. A perfectly fine sandwich food and the best dessert food known to humankind. Why ruin two flavors by putting them together? I just don’t get it. If I want peanut butter, I’ll eat peanut butter. Don’t spoil my chocolate with it. If they are so good together, I reason, why haven’t I heard about peanut butter and chocolate sandwiches?? If you want to spoil the dessert food, why not spoil the lunch food as well?

But that’s okay. Too each her/his own. But if I come to your house, don’t be surprised when I decline your offer of peanut butter and chocolate ice cream. I want to keep my youthful appearance for as long as possible.