When melting chocolate goes wrong

 

I put it in the microwave to melt and popped out to the washing line. When I re-entered the kitchen it was to smoke and a strange smell. 

It was very impressive, like lots of little volcanoes, as it turned to ashes.

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For Lent I've been trying to put  'Jesus said' quote up on the Zac's Facebook page every day. I haven't always managed it, just because of life, but when I have I've discovered that, though Jesus said a lot of brilliant things, he rarely said anything about whatever happens to be on my mind that particular day.

So yesterday I was going to write about hope - following the raising and crushing of it in the rugby on Sunday - but he didn't say anything specifically about hope, not in an easy quotable way. Ditto today. I was thinking about motherless children and, again, not a lot about mothers and what there is just makes it complicated. 

When his mother and brothers were outside a house Jesus was teaching in they sent a message in saying they were there. Jesus responded saying, "Who are my mother and brothers?"

A bit harsh! So I had to come up with a positive take on it. There are plenty of quotes about orphans in the Old Testament and the letters but I didn't want to use those. Tomorrow I will find a quote first and then think of something intelligent to say about it. (Or something not stupid. With the 'who is my mother?' quote I was all ready to do an angry mam post. "Who'd he think he is? I went through merry hell having him and this is the thanks I get." And so on. But not all people appreciate my sense of humour.)