OVERFLOW

When your daughter asks you to make homemade cinnamon rolls for her husbands basketball team for Christmas of course you say yes! 

What was I thinking?!!!!!!!!!

  Go Momma and I made all the dough a double batch at a time.  We had figured we needed 3 to 4 double batches to have enough for 20 pans.  We had an assembly line going.  One by one the ingredients went into the pan: butter, sugar, eggs, secret ingredient, yeast, flour salt. 

Before we could get one batch finished the previous batch had already begun to rise.  I mean really rise, over the side of the bowl.  Usually you put the dough in the fridge and roll and bake the next morning, but not this dough.  This dough had a mind of its own.  It was overflowing over all four bowls.  Some of the dough was on the floorboard of my car; I threw it away. 

As Jay and I unloaded the dough it kept falling over the side of the bowls.  Jay and I had dough all over us.  “What in the world is going on with this dough?” he asked.   “Overflowing dough I guess.” I replied.

  I began to roll, put on the butter and cinnamon sugar.  Two hours later I had made 196 cinnamon rolls!  Exhausted!

As I sit this morning and write, my mind keeps going back to the dough.  The dough is an example of how I want to be.  I want to be overflowing with Gods love passing on joy to others.  I want others to see Him through me.  I want to show His amazement by accomplishing the goals and plans He has for my life. 

So lets do it!  Lets make a goal for 2016 to be overflowing for the Lord.  Let our cup runneth over so that we fill others cups with the same joy that we have found through Him.  Pray that He leads you on your journey and directs you to the goals He wants you to achieve. 

Overflow with peace, love and joy sharing Gods goodness and grace with others.