today we tried to bake a chocolate cake. ahahaha. with chocolate sauce. so we got everything ready and started pouring hot water into the mixture of sugar and cocoa powder to get chocolate sauce. the requirement was 1cup, but after we had poured 1/4 cup in, the sauce looked thick enough, so we happily decided that it was enough. but thankfully, after we placed the cake in the oven i had this sudden epiphany that we should add more water cos maybe the water is to moisten the cake! so we took it out and added more water. thankfully. else we would have a really hard cake.

and that kinda reminded me of me and my life. God has the formula for my life all laid out carefully in this instruction manual called the Bible. He tells me what ingredients to add to my life, to seek first His kingdom, to love Him, to serve Him, for that is man's all. but then somewhere along the way i think that i know better. i add less of something, more of something else, and it all gets mixed up and messes up the finished product. but thankfully, the Lord graciously intervenes in my weaknesses and saves me from myself.

kudos to andrew for introducing me to brooke fraser - her songs really are amazing.

deciphering me
arithmetic

the second song struck me in a way i cant explain. "You are the One i want."

of all the things i know for sure,
You are the only Certain One.

the same, yesterday, today, and forever.

if I add, if I substract
If I give it all, try to take some back
I've forgotten the freedom that comes from the fact
That you are the sum
So You are the one
I want

the inner pleadings of my heart, when i am blinded by the pain of life's trials, when i try to take some of myself back, You are the One i want.

When the years are showing on my face
And my strongest days are gone
When my heart and flesh depart this place
From a life that sung your song

You'll still be the One i want.