Yesterday David and I were assigned to making dessert for a community group pot luck. Wanting to make the best out of the last little while that I had Martha Stewarts’ baking book I decided to make a peach-blackberry galette. It looked a bit fancy, but I decided to give it a try anyways. I followed the recipe very carefully and when I had gotten pastry dough put together and the fruit prepared and made the pastry it looked perfect! It was exactly like the picture! I was so excited that I danced around the kitchen and called David on the phone to exclaim to him how beautiful it was.

    The creation of that which is beautiful is one of the things that I really enjoy about baking. When I am done I have something delightful and my house smells like a home. But what it made me think about yesterday afternoon while on the phone to my husband was the passages in Genesis 1 where God proclaims what He made to be good. I thought about the great amount of delight I take in making ingredients come together into something to eat and enjoy and how much greater God’s joy and delight must have been in creating the universe out of nothing and then calling it good. I don’t suppose I think much about being a creation of God and the delight that the creator has in a creation; but God must delight in us so much more that I delight in a pastry. It’s crazy to think about the God of the universe caring that much about us. Did he dance around heaven when He created man and exclaim to the angels- isn’t it beautiful?