“You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It Too” (standard:humor, 899 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: May 07 2017	Views/Reads: 2132/1269	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
I must be careful that I am using words that encourage people rather than confuse them.

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Now I was really confused. She is talking about a cake but she cannot
tell me what cake it is. Her assumption is that I know about the cake 
she is talking about when in fact, I have no idea about the cake she is 
talking about. I have no scruples about eating my cake, but I like to 
know where it is at. 

My father tried to explain to me one time by saying, “Once you eat the
cake, it's no longer yours.” 

Where are parents trained to be parents? If I eat the cake, whose cake
is it? In fact, if I do not eat the cake there is a danger that 
somebody else might eat my cake and I sure do not want that to happen. 

I think the most disturbing time in a person's life is when they find
themselves talking like their parents. I distinctly remember the time 
when my kids wanted to do something and I responded by saying, “You 
can't have your cake and eat it too.” 

Saying things that we do not quite understand often gets us into
difficulty particularly with family. I wonder if the apostle Paul had 
this in mind when he writes, “Let no corrupt communication proceed out 
of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it 
may minister grace unto the hearers” (Ephesians 4:29). 

I must be careful that I am using words that encourage people rather
than confuse them. 


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