(This
is a true account of something that happened in my life in 2009 and i decided to share it on here.) :)
On
Saturday evening I decided to make some pull-apart cinnamon bread for breakfast
on Sunday morning. A neat new recipe, I thought. It used frozen
yeast rolls in a Bundt pan with cinnamon, brown sugar, butter, pecan, and
butterscotch pudding. Sounded yummy. Anyway, you make it the night
before and let it rise in a cold oven overnight, and then bake it in the
morning. I got it all ready late Saturday evening and stuck it in our
cold oven.
In
the morning when I woke up and peeked in the oven, the rolls had risen so much
they were everywhere and there was a big mess all over the oven! I wish I
had taken a picture of the oven, but I did take one of the pan once I got it
out of the oven and set it on the counter. What a
disaster! And, of course my five kids were all very disappointed when
they saw it and I explained that the recipe was a flop; we weren’t going
to have pull-apart cinnamon bread after all.
A
little while later I was getting ready to throw the dough away, and I just
scooped the big mess into a pile in the pan, getting ready to carry it over to
the sink to put down the garbage disposal. As I was carrying it over, I
looked at it and thought it looked pretty good. So, I pushed the dough
back into the pan and thought I may as well try baking it. It looked like
it may turn out OK after all.
We
were all surprised when I took it out of the oven and dumped it out of the
pan. It looked perfect, like it could be on the cover of
a cooking magazine or something! As I was standing in amazement at this
“disaster” that I had almost thrown in the trash, I thought about God, and how
He works in our lives. The dough had looked worthless, and yet it wasn’t.
It had looked like a huge mistake, and yet it wasn’t. It looked like it
wouldn’t be any good at all, and yet it was beautiful and delicious. And, I
was reminded once again of how God can take the messes that we’ve made in our
life, and turn them into a MASTERPIECE!
Love and Blessings to you all,
Nikki :)
