What is in your heart?

 Trust in the Lord and do good;
    dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.

Take delight in the Lord,
    and he will give you the desires of your heart.

 Commit your way to the Lord;
    trust in him and he will do this:

Be still before the Lord
    and wait patiently for him;  

                                    Extract from Ps.37:3-7

This 10inch heart is a variety of chocolate bars, eg Crunchie, Smarties, Twix and others melted down and covered in Maltesers.  For Valentine’s Day my son had made one each of these for his wife and two daughters.  He’d made a heart mould from cardboard, covered it in clean film and poured in the chocolate mix adding the Maltesers before it set.  Theirs were same size as this, but with a stick at the bottom to hold like lollipops.  When he sent me photos I suggested I had one for Mothers’ Day, And low and behold last Saturday just the ACW Historical Fiction Zoom meeting broke for lunch it arrived, I was so thrilled.  Although, I did wait until Sunday to start hacking my way through the Maltesers and ½inch thickness of chocolate.  The cost he said was far less than buying a far smaller heart from a chocolatier.    

Needless to say, he no longer lives in the ‘waste not, want not’ years of his childhood! And this recipe won’t appear on my blog as one heart is the equivalent cost of breakfast, lunch and dinner for five people!  This 40 day exercise has staggered me, the meals costing less than £2.00 ppp.  There are no crisps, biscuits, chocolates, puddings or sweet recipes, but the idea was to have a healthy diet, but there is wriggle room for a little of that.

By Easter those forty examples of the main meals we eat will end, but I will include on the blog ten of my most popular sweet dishes, made for visitors, or special occasions.  Some meals are very simple, others slightly more complicated which I have tried to keep to weekends when Mum’s hopefully have more time.  In the process came a few forgotten recipes, once big favourites, my meat loaf with tasty roast potatoes being one of those.

So what of the future for us all?  What is in your heart to do?  This time last year we were meant to be Cape Town and going on a cruise. This year a repeat of last!  Now rebooked again for January 2022.  However, as with everything, if we follow David the Psalmist’s words, this time won’t have been wasted, and we will be prepared for the next stage of God’s plans and purposes to be outworked.

It was odd to hear last Saturday that my books set in the 1960s & 70s can now be billed ‘historical’ as I write about what I know (with exaggeration)!  And it's encouraging publishers are becoming more accepting of novels which mention God.  My aim has always been to romance the soul and spirit with a punchy, 400 page turning story where God’s Word is seeded in the belief it never returns void.  So, if we are all trusting, delighting, committing and waiting, let's believe people will soon be reading the fruit of our labours in the land of the living!