Half Baked

There is never enough time.

Tonight at 8:00pm Cooper and I started baking cookies for his end of the year class party. Cooper loves to bake and this is something we could of really enjoyed doing together…but we were in a hurry. So although we did do it together, we did it fast. We did not start baking until 8pm because Cooper had baseball practice at 5:30pm, Tilly had dance class at 6:30, after which we went to the store to buy a present for a birthday party tomorrow. It was bedtime before the second batch went in the oven, I worked on my lesson for youth group tomorrow night while they baked. Both the lesson and the cookies turned out a little “half baked”.

I try not to make my life too busy…but sometimes it just is.
Tonight, being in a hurry robbed me of really enjoying baking those cookies with Cooper. I believe being in a hurry is one of the things that robs me from having a full relationship with God as well.

John Ortberg said “ Again and Again, as we pursue spiritual life, we must do battle with hurry. For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.”