Cravings

I LOVE ice cream. Really, I do believe that it is quite possibly the World's Most Perfect Food. Choose the right flavor, and you have all the basic food groups covered. Take Moose Tracks, for example. You're got your peanut butter for protein, your cream for dairy, and sugar for carbohydrates. Throw a maraschino cherry on top, and you've got some fruit! Don't forget about the chocolate, which is the World's 2nd Most Perfect Food! As you all know, chocolate comes from a bean, so it's really a vegetable, right???

I spotted the object of my true desire on our way home from the World's Longest 4th of July Parade. (You'll have to excuse all the statistics. I'm getting kick-backs from Guinness for this blog post, ok?) As for the object of my desire, it was a HUGE soft-serve chocolate ice cream cone. You know, one of those teetering, 8-inch high mounds of pure sweetness and light. Truly a delicious sight to behold, something that keeps you up at night and makes you wonder whether or not Dairy Queen is open 24 hours a day!

Two days later, we decided to take the whole family out for ice cream. Boy, was I excited! Finally, a chance to quell the craving and quiet the Ice Cream Beast that lives inside all of us (well, at least inside of me, anyways). Everyone decided that UDF was the place to be, so we pulled up and piled out of the van. After mustering up every possible ounce of self-restraint and dignity, I approached the ice cream counter calmly and in an orderly fashion. Ok, ok, I admit it. I ran over one skinny kid (not my own, of course!) and a man who looked vaguely familiar. (If anyone knows how to clean skid marks off sensitive skin, my husband is open to advice.)

But Alas...It was not to be!

No chocolate soft serve was to be had at UDF. No chocolate soft-serve??!!! Whoever heard of such lunacy? They had french vanilla and peach of all things. PEACH! Who would ever buy peach ice cream? It is certainly a true, true waste of the country's natural resources and energy reserves. Where's the FDA when you really need them? To be fair, I must admit that UDF had a bazillion flavors of hard pack ice cream. Superman, Mint Chip, Cookie Dough, and more.

But
No
Chocolate
Soft serve...

Oh, the agony of it all!

So, I did something that I've never done before and will probably never do again. I passed up a chance to eat ice cream! Yes, write it down. This is really another World Record. I can see the headlines now, "Confirmed IceCream-Aholic Goes Dry at the UDF." If I couldn't have my chocolate self-serve, I just didn't want anything. I wasn't pouting or sulking. I just honestly could not work up an appetite for any other kind of ice cream. I'm tellin' you all, this was really the Granddaddy of all possible Cravings!

Speaking of cravings, in I Peter 2:2, we read the following, "Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation." Crave...God used the word crave! And boy, do I know what it means to crave something! I hope that my cravings for Jesus and His Word far surpass my cravings for chocolate soft-serve ice cream. I want to think about the Word day and night. I want to lay awake wondering when I'll be able to get my next "fix." I want to pass up all those cheap, peachy substitutes and hold out for the REAL thing! “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.” (Psalm 42:1) It's the B-I-B-L-E, folks, and it's even better than ice cream. Always satisfying and 100% Fat Free! Order yourself a double-dip today :)