What's cooking?

My 2 great passions in life beyond family and ministry are cars and cooking. Cars I am pretty good at - at least when I still had money and raced. Cooking I think I am ok at. There a few things I cook really well but I don't follow recipes very well so that lends itself to going really well or going really bad when I experiment. There is probable an analogy to life in there somewhere. Anyway recently I have been getting that sense that in life something is stirring. I don't know what it is or why in the midst of one of the busiest seasons of my life I would sense that. Here lately I don't feel like I have time to sense much of anything. Even the uber-cold we have been having has not served as a distraction. But yet I still feel this stirring in my soul. I can't imagine more changes in my life or ministry or career or whatever, but I cannot shake the feeling. I crave stability and some sense of normalcy, whatever that is. In addition to the adventure of leading 2 different youth groups at 2 different locations, I get to help administer and pull off our largest event of the year, Blast, which I am enormously excited (and anxious if I am honest) about. I am helping plan and lead a trip to the Philippines in June which has monopolized my time of late, and oh yeah trying not to be a total failure as a husband and father. What more could I possible dream of? The answer is ...... I don't know. But after all these years I am recognizing the signs of my glorious Creator, the Chef of all Chef's, reaching into the cabinet and assembling the ingredients. He has a new recipe to try out and if I am brave enough to taste of it, well it may just be the most magnificent thing I have ever tasted.

We'll see, but something is stirring.