PUT THAT COOKIE DOWN!!!

Recently my gorgeous wife and I made a TON of chocolate chip cookies for our Sunday school class that we teach together. There were quite a few cookies left over after church. Seeing this bounteous surplus, I thought it would be a good idea to share these cookies with someone else as a random act of kindness (and senseless beauty). I recall feeling great about this idea, until some other situation erupted that broke-up the plans forming in my head.

Time passed and somehow I lost my resolve. Being the "grazer" that I am, I'd snag a cookie every time I drifted by the kitchen that afternoon. I think my kids were doing the same thing. Mentally, I figured there would still be enough to take a plate to someone. But sure enough, when the time came and I decided who I could share the cookies with, they were gone.

I think this is a great example of our power to bless other people's lives. It takes time and steady effort to build up a store of good things we can share. We may sit back and admire what we have accomplished and design to share it with others, but the temptation arises to keep what we have earned, rather than give it away. It takes self-control, discipline and sacrifice to help other people. The rewards for giving away our cookies are so much greater than stuffing them down our greedy throats "with nothing to show for it" later.

Honestly, I blew it. I hoarded my cookies and missed a great opportunity to perform a small, simple act of kindness. "Behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass." Next time, I'll start with the end in mind and (as Arnold would say) PUT THAT COOKIE DOWN!!!