The Chocolate Teapot

 In the past he was useless to you, 

but now he has become useful for both you and me.  

Philemon 1:11

Have you heard the phrase as useless as a chocolate teapot?
I hadn't really thought about it until this summer when I read about a chocolate teapot and found the book I updated my book review with.

I thought I'd find out what a chocolate teapot was.  So here are the findings from that distrustful but helpful source Wikkipedia.

A chocolate teapot is a teapot that would be made from chocolate. It is commonly supposed that such a teapot would melt, and be impossible to use, therefore the term is often used as an analogy for any useless item.

A chocolate teapot, it turns out, is the ultimate in uselessness; a profoundly flawed design, whose defining characteristics make it unfit for its intended use. The metaphor makes sense; it’s obvious that if you try to make tea in a chocolate teapot, it will melt, and (boiling water being what it is), you’ll have a mess (and maybe a lawsuit) on your hands.

However author David Lawerance used this as a title for a book to give guidance to young teenagers in dealing with everyday crises that come their way.  I would suggest we are all like chocolate teapots. The world may tip in to our middle hot water or liquid and we melt.  Like the teapot in the clip from Iain Clarke.  (Sorry that it also advertises his company.)

A few people like Iain have tried to improve the chocolate teapot. One particular group found that it really depended on the thickness of the walls of the teapot whether or not it actually melted.  I believe that God knows how thick we need to be.  When  we read God's love letter everyday and pray with him and do his bidding every day we grow stronger and gain protection, so when we get into or have hot water in our lives we are made more sturdy.God is then the Chocolate Teapot Specialist.

Fruit of the Spirit

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,                                                                kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.                                                      There is no law against things like this."                                                                                Galatians 5:22-23

I have always wanted to write a blog on this topic, I love fruit.  I actually like summer fruit the best.  Unfortunately I am unable to enjoy it.  I have major allergies to most of it.    This type of fruit does not go out of season thank goodness.  It only improves on using it.

I found this a sermonette On GodTube.  For me learning has to be visual so I enjoyed the following animation.

Fruit of the Spirit - An illustration from inspiredfaith on GodTube.