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Indy's Cake analogy:

A cake has milk, eggs, butter, flour and sugar in it for a reason. And all because the flour thinks it doesn't fit in doesn't give it the right to just leave when it was willed to be in that cake. Because the flour left and how the cake now seems to look, the sugar leaves and then following it the butter does. Now even though the cake was willed to be a cake with all those ingredients, because they were so greedy and did not think of the cake as a whole, it seems ruined. But because of the greatness of the willer, instead of a cake you have a morning breakfast, Eggs and Milk! Then once the ingredients that left see how great it turned out, even though it wasn't a cake, they wish they had been able to be used like the milk and eggs. They wish that the willer had used them in such an amazing way but because of their own evil and sin, they ruined that chance. And even though evil and sin ruined a cake, the willer was able to turn it into something good.
~ Indy

I like the analogy of the cake so I borrowed it. Some of the words in it are a little harsh, like saying that it's evil and sin to leave, because everybody that left didn't go out of selfish anger in sin, but the general message is one to ponder. Yes, morning breakfast is still good, it still feeds the person and they are satisfied and have the nutrients they need. I'm not saying that if the flour, butter and sugar reconciled and returned to the kitchen that there wouldn't be a cake--- the utensils are still there, and the master baker, (willer,) still wants us all to be in the cake, but it's a choice that each ingredient must make.
Sometimes the only way to get flour back is for butter to come first and encourage them, sometimes the other way around. But even if butter comes and flour doesn't, butter goes very well on eggs with milk. And if we add new ingredients like chesse- Hey! an omlet :-) but even then, if everything else returns- we have cake, plus stuff to make bread with cheese: grilled cheese! hehe.
It's a week of Thanks, and the eggs and milk can be thankful to be part of breakfast and hope/pray for cake, however it turns out =)

I'll post my Thankful list tomorrow evening =)