Week 2, Saturday: Upside Down Cake

Read Luke 1:46-56
It's all in the flip.

Pineapple Upside Down Cake looks like any ordinary cake when you first take it out of the oven. Kind of plain. It doesn't even have any frosting. But then -- the key to the whole process -- you turn the pan upside down. And when the cake falls out, you discover a beautiful surprise. All these pineapple rings that were cooking in the bottom change the cake from average to amazing.

Read through Mary's song and a theme comes through: God has turned things upside down with the birth of Jesus. What reverses do you find in the song? What unexpected surprises has Jesus brought into your own life? How is God different from what you thought he would be like?

Mary also does something unexpected. In the face of a future that would have scared most anyone, she chose to turn things upside down and praise God and see it as a blessing. And when she did, she found all kinds of things he was doing for her.

Praise always finds the pineapples.

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