This Sunday, I decided to treat my mom to something she has never tried her entire lives. It’s a breakfast meal from Mcdonald. For many of you, this is probably something quite the usual and something pretty cheap to buy. It's a different story with the way my mom thinks. Mcdonald is something expensive and something she would never buy unless it’s somebody treat. So, I grew up never eating this until I lived on my own and Mcdonald’s is like my kitchen at one point.

You can never go wrong with their scrambled egg and Mcmuffin. I don’t care about anything else in their menu and rarely eat their chicken options or others. All I care about is their scrambled egg and the Mcmuffin. So, that’s what I wanted my mom to try and according to her, it’s too expensive and the portion is too small.

I even have to try to hide the receipt from her because she would be shocked by how much our breakfast was costing us 😀but maybe she did a good thing as a mother back in the day because all these fast foods aren’t really good for us. Though I can see another side of the story as I ended up growing up as someone who once had Mcdonalds excessively as soon as I was nearing the source and it was something readily available.

After breakfast, I went to a cafe to get my coffee and listen to the usual Sunday sermon. I skipped for two weeks cause I guess I wasn’t in the right mind and was busy at one point too. This Sunday topic offers quite an intriguing topic on evil and morality. The pastor has a frame of work I’ve really never heard before and that’s why I like him. He was able to make sense of the two worlds, two polarities that his audience including myself grew up in. Physically and culturally we live in the east but through our education we are influenced by pretty much of the western thoughts and ideas. Philosophically, they differ and to make sense of the two, is another set of challenging work. It’s as if you can’t connect the two but rather build different bridges. He’s one of the few I heard who can make sense of the two after having lived in two different parts and that shows in the way he delivered his sermons.

During the sermon one of the quotes that spoke to me the most is this by Thomas Harris. The pastor connects it to the idea that evil doesn’t always happen because one is broken home, etc along the lines of the western thoughts. The same way in eastern culture where evil doesn’t always happen because of spirits or occultist practices. I couldn’t worded it better but basically that was along the line.

“Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences.”― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lamb

Another thing that I was making notes on in my small notebook is that basically sin is complex. We can’t really reduce them to just two polars. One of the things that I also like about this pastor is how not only he’s gospel centered but also has quite an understanding of philosophy. Typically, sermons are just all about good stuff. It shouldn’t be like that and something I really avoid. As someone who used to explore this historically and even exploring the alternatives within this faith alone, he was refreshing, and adding something to my knowledge.

Not the best of my handwriting 😆 but that’ll do.

Anyway Sunday ends when it’s time for baking!

I made an edible cup filled with affogatoand that’s going to be the last of my baking shenanigans. I’ve baked quite a bit of things and I am sure my sugar levels are up too 😂 rather than doing it throughout the week, from next week and on, I’ll make it something that fits for Sunday. It should make its own series, like Sunday Bake or something.

That was my Sunday, how was yours?