I have spent most of the day making cookies with my older brother. At Christmas time we always make cookies. My favorite ones are the sugar cookies (I don't like chocolate!). You know, the ones you cut out with cookie cutters? We cut out candy canes, trees, bells, angels, reindeer, santas, churches, and a random bear or two. :D
Well, I got to thinking about stuff. (scary, I know!) But you know the phrase a "Cookie Cutter Life"? Or maybe I just made it up. Anywho, it is a life where everything is perfectly arranged. There are different types of sizes and shapes, but I think most people today are trying to make their lives the perfect cookie! The reasons we have cookie cutters is to make the cookie pretty and more appealing to the eye. Isn't that what we are doing to ourselves...making our lives pretty and appealing to the world??
I have recently completed my first semester at college, and it has been AMAZING!! I love it there. I have great friends who love Jesus, brilliant professors, and a fantastic environment. Yes, I am in love! :D But there are many things going through my head when I think about college. I am a declared math major and I have decided to double major in chemistry (I just haven't signed the papers yet!). When I tell people my majors most of the reactions are ones of shock, speechlessness, or exclamations of "that is crazy, better you than me!" The thing is that math comes pretty easy to me and I really like chemistry (well, we'll see after organic next year...). People have been asking me what I am going to be doing after college. MAN! I barely know what I am doing IN IT!!!
There is a point for that tangent... Questions keep flowing through my head... What job can I get that I will enjoy and get enough money? Will I be able to travel in my career choice? When I go to graduate school, will I choose math or chemistry as my field of choice? Where am I going to live? Will I have enough money?? See! That is the thing!! I really think the world is brainwashing everyone! The world (or US) expects me to be successful, have a pretty house in a neighborhood or subdivision, have a nice car, and get as much money as possible. I don't even know if any of this is making sense...
I guess I want to know is this: When did we start letting the world set our limits? (You have to make over $_______, you need all the technology gadgets, you have to like this person and this person, you need to go to all these parties, date the right person, and talk to your Mom every Sunday!) uhhhhh! It just frustrates me!
The thing is that I think I am trying to think about my future and make it fit within the metal boundaries of the cutter. What I really want to do is just be a clump of dough that falls on the cookie sheet...letting GOD form me. I might not be as pretty to the eyes as others, but I will still taste AMAZING!!
I hope anyone who reads this is following my thoughts... I guess what I am trying to say that people need to stop living by the World's standards and start living by God's! I will be the first to stand up and say that I am not doing that, but I am going to give it a try. I love math, chemistry, and traveling. I also believe that God is going to use those things in the most amazing way (something that I never could do by myself...). It is scary to let go and let God take control, but the reward is so much greater.
So, let go of the cookie cutter and let God mold you. It might not be what you had in mind, but you know the saying: We make plans and God laughs. Trust him. He is the Potter, and we are the clay... or the Baker and the dough! :D
