Having cake and eating cake

Having your cake and eating it too sounds like a sweet deal. You always have this nice cake sitting there, so whenever your sweet tooth beckons,  you tap your endless supply of cake. You have it. You eat it. Unfortunately, this spontaneously regenerating cake is regretfully rare in our universe. Everyone wants one, but nobody has one. Word on the street is you can’t have your cake and eat it, too.

That little saying about nonrenewable baked goods points to an immutable truth in life: You can’t do whatever you want without consequences. If you want to lay on the couch and eat fast food every day,  you won’t stay trim and buff. If you want to get wasted on Friday, Saturday is going to be rough. If you want to live like hell today, don’t expect a life like heaven tomorrow. Consequences are consequential.

All of us go through phases of living like we’ve got perpetual cake. Then at some point, we wake up smelling like bakery vomit and realize that nothing is left of our cake but crumbs. That’s when many of us realize that we aren’t exceptions to the laws of life. We scratch our cake-eating heads and wonder if someone has figured out a way to eat just enough cake. That search takes us to a chick named wisdom.

Wisdom is the collection of best cake-eating practices. Wisdom knows you can’t have it all, and she knows how much you should have. Wisdom knows how to best live life today so it doesn’t suck tomorrow. You might be surprised where this metaphorical babe hangs out--in church.

Good religion has balancing guidelines for how life is best lived to the max. A “cake rationing plan” of sorts. When you’re in the “wahoo, I’ve got cake!” phase of life, adhering to guidelines seems like obeying killjoy rules. The only thing better than a little cake is a lot of cake, right? But when you walk in the kitchen and find no cake for the week because you inhaled it all last night, following a plan starts to seem like a good option.

Tired of being cakeless? There’s a wise lady you should go see.