Upside down cake (and a bit of seriousness, too)

This is really random, but also (in my opinion) very funny. The other day, I wanted to make a pineapple upside down cake (PUDC) for my Life Group because PUDC is my most FAVORITE cake in the whole wide world. I had all the ingredients, and I was excited to share my favorite cake with my girls who are mostly from China.
After the timer went off, I checked the middle of the cake with a toothpick and it came out clean, so I turned the oven off and waited 10 minutes to flip the cake upside down. When the 10 min. were up, I flipped it. Much to my dismay, the middle of the cake was NOT done, and was about 5 shades lighter than the rest of the cake. Because of the instablity of the middle of the cake, the cake split down the middle. So I had a half-baked, upside-down, cracked cake on my hands. I momentarliy panicked before deciding to get the cake back into the pan to bake if for a bit longer. Do you know how difficult it is to get a half-baked, upside-down, cracked cake back into a cake pan, rightside up???
Anyway, I eventually got it back in, baked it for a while longer, flipped it again, and this time it was done. I just used an old trick of cutting the cake into pieces before taking it to Life Group, and nobody ever knew it had such a disasterous start...until now, when I posted this for EVERYBODY to read!!
On a serious note...something from Job really struck me this week. It's in the middle of Elihu's rant towards Job, sidenote-I don't think Job deserved that, but one thing he says is, "Why don't people say to God, 'I have sinned, but I will sin no more?' or 'I don't know what evil I have done-tell me. If I have done wrong, I will stop at once'?" (Job 34:31,32 NLT). It made me think of just how often I do (or don't) confess my sin-or am aware (or not aware) of my sin. It DID make me aware that I need to confess my sin more-and even practice Spiritual Breathing more.

What's going on!?

It's just astounding how life can come and go. It seems as though I live in a completely depreciating world. There is the moral state of the country that anyone whose lived more than 15 years can recognize as becoming more and more anthropocentric. Also, that the dollar is really losing ground on pretty much any other currency known to man. Pretty soon the beach combing jockeys won't be detecting for loose change, they'll concentrate their time on searching for wampum instead. Ha! Even the minute doesn't seem to hold the value it once did. I'm pretty sure that 60 of them used to equal an hour, but now it seems like time cuts itself in half.

With time playing its tricks on me, it makes my future almost seem far too near. How I'll use my time just seems really important. I've committed a year of my life in the Lord's service to Campus Crusade for Christ, but I've committed my entire life to Christ for all time. How will that play out for me??? As I've contemplated my future and where I'll go, I've thought about the entirety of my life to date.

People have been calling me to become a Christian since I was younger than I can remember, telling me about Christ, and I thought all I had to do was pray a prayer....but when Christ called me to follow Him, October 2003, it was a call to unconditional surrender. I now realize that God isn't satisfied with anything less than 100% of myself. He didn't call me to give 10% of my time, or 10% of my money, or for me to pray for my own well-being....He called me to be entirely magnanimous toward others and completely capitulated to Christ. We Christians have a very high calling. One that demands all of ourselves. If I follow after God with 99% of myself than I am not a disciple of Christ.

I'm reminded of the disciples...only 1 out of 12 even got to die comfortably. I truly wonder what my future holds. I'm just encouraged to know that, no matter what happens, I should 100% give my life to serve Christ because He 100% gave His life to save me....that's my life.....and that's my covenant.