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Eating food.
Making food.
Whichever you prefer, the first we all love, in fact a necessity.
This is your salt.
These are your eggs.
This is your flour.
Now eat. Food is ready.
The ingredients are never food enough.
We need some fire. Something to hold them together and then more fire.
I stood over the edge of my life the other day and honestly it seemed like a messed up kitchen.
There was some good stuff going on.
There was my sugar.
I wanted all of it and more but I can't live on sugar. Even though that's all I want my mouth to taste of.
There were some greens. They were bitter and I had them sprawled around the kitchen floor.
This is not what I want.
You see, I couldn't make any sense of it then.
But when the chef steps into the kitchen, he will make a dish of nourishment and celebration no matter how extreme, bittersweet or bland the ingredients are.
Life throws us things we can't make sense of but when we give it to God, It's like a million dollar recipe in a chef's hand. He knows exactly what dish to make of it.
This is your butter.
This is your salt.
This is your flour.
Alone you can't have any of it for breakfast but in the hands of God, with the fires of life, he can bake the best bread.
From stone water will come. From your mess a message will ensue. From our disgrace, his grace would emerge. He adds and removes and cooks it all up like the best chef in town. The foul odored eggs we couldn't stand, the bland taste of flour and the harsh salt we couldn't munch a mouthful, he has added to the sugar we always want to have all day to make a great cake.
Now say after me if your heart is broken even as this year ends or your hope frail.
This is my life, these are the broken pieces. Take it and do what You do best.
Make bread and feed the multitude.
Making food.
Whichever you prefer, the first we all love, in fact a necessity.
This is your salt.
These are your eggs.
This is your flour.
Now eat. Food is ready.
The ingredients are never food enough.
We need some fire. Something to hold them together and then more fire.
I stood over the edge of my life the other day and honestly it seemed like a messed up kitchen.
There was some good stuff going on.
There was my sugar.
I wanted all of it and more but I can't live on sugar. Even though that's all I want my mouth to taste of.
There were some greens. They were bitter and I had them sprawled around the kitchen floor.
This is not what I want.
You see, I couldn't make any sense of it then.
But when the chef steps into the kitchen, he will make a dish of nourishment and celebration no matter how extreme, bittersweet or bland the ingredients are.
Life throws us things we can't make sense of but when we give it to God, It's like a million dollar recipe in a chef's hand. He knows exactly what dish to make of it.
This is your butter.
This is your salt.
This is your flour.
Alone you can't have any of it for breakfast but in the hands of God, with the fires of life, he can bake the best bread.
From stone water will come. From your mess a message will ensue. From our disgrace, his grace would emerge. He adds and removes and cooks it all up like the best chef in town. The foul odored eggs we couldn't stand, the bland taste of flour and the harsh salt we couldn't munch a mouthful, he has added to the sugar we always want to have all day to make a great cake.
Now say after me if your heart is broken even as this year ends or your hope frail.
This is my life, these are the broken pieces. Take it and do what You do best.
Make bread and feed the multitude.
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