Musings on Cookies and Creation

It is not every day that a girl is surrounded by the perfect ingredients for a beautiful day: Wonderful friends, beautiful sunshine, and an incredible God.

Yes, this was the day that I was blessed with. Not only this, but I had the opportunity to bake cookies.

Despite my age, this was one of the first times that I had ever baked from scratch. As I gazed at the seemingly endless list of ingredients, I was overwhelmed. Overwhelmed by the recipe and the variety of ingredients required to go into the supposedly simple and easy chocolate chip butterscotch cookies.

After I had finished combining the ingredients, I put them in the oven.

To my surprise, I determined that I was perfectly capable of wrecking a perfectly good batch of cookies. 

The first batch: burnt. 

The second batch: semi-burnt.

But finally, on the third try: almost perfect.

Now, my less-than-perfect first attempt at baking was probably entirely normal. I am sure that plenty of girls before me have completely ruined their first batch of cookies. Plenty. But I was frustrated... my perfectionist tendencies arising in side of me.

And then I realized what my little baking endeavor was supposed to teach me:

When left up to humans,

 Creation goes horribly wrong,

 but when left up to God, it ran perfectly... 

THE FIRST TIME. 

My little baking creation took several tries and even on my final attempt, I could not attain perfection. But God created the whole earth in seven days and created it perfectly on His first try.

Amazing.

So those are a few thoughts from the aspiring, less-than-perfect little baker, who is very thankful that the Lord still calls her His daughter despite the fact that she might not be the perfect apron-wearing baker yet. Maybe some day.

But for now, the less-than-perfect baker is content with worshipping her more-than-perfect God.