If you've ever made chocolate chip cookies, you've noticed that no matter what the recipe, there are some staple ingredients across the board... flour, baking powder, sugar, eggs, chocolate chips... but that each kind might have a few surprises thrown into the mix... pecans, brown sugar, vanilla, or oatmeal.
Have you ever eaten just flour? Or raw eggs? Baking powder? I bet that even vanilla extract on it's own wouldn't be satisfying.
But sugar? Chocolate chips? Pecans? Sure... I'll eat those by themselves all day long.
The recipe of making chocolate chip cookies reminds me of life, and that sometimes we experience really good days. Really good moments and memories that we love and cherish forever. There are also times when we experience really bad days. Experience really bad situations and we'd love nothing more than to erase from our memories.
But without the flour, without the baking powder or raw eggs, the delicious, melty goodness of a warm chocolate chip cookie couldn't exist.
We can't only have happy and exciting moments in our lives. That's impossible. We're going to have down times... dark moments. That doesn't mean, however, that we have a down or dark life. These moments are just that... moments. And in the long timeline of your life, I hope that these moments will be just little blips. Little speed bumps that encourage you to take inventory, take time to appreciate what you have, take opportunity to notice that without any of the bad times we might not be so apt to notice the good.
Chocolate chip cookies, and our lives, are best when focused as a whole... not just the parts.
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