The Mess

I'm baking tonight. I find myself struck by the thought that whenever I want to do something creative, something that will have a beautiful end such as crafting or baking, I need to make a mess. I become super frustrated about the mess  in the process. It seems so unnecessary. And yet there is no product without the mess.

I feel like the same is true of my life. Sometimes things are a real mess. But God is so faithful to create something beautiful out of it all. Sometimes we need to step back from our situation and try to see how God is putting the pieces together and refining us into something much better than if we had never been through the mess in the first place.

And just because one mess may be cleaned up doesn't mean that there won't be more mess to come. We are all a work in progress. I'm so thankful that God isn't done with us. It gives me hope for myself, and for others who are still working their way through their own messes, that beautiful things are yet to come.

"Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." Philippians 1:6