How often do we see people’s lives like the muffins in the pan shown in the picture? Everything looks exactly like it’s supposed to and possibly even perfect to our eyes. We see muffins (insert anything) that are perfectly brown, with blueberries sticking out occasionally that look like they are bursting with flavor with the promise of yumminess when you bite into them?
Our minds continue to weave a tale of what those perfect muffins and blueberries mean for that person and how our “muffins and blueberries” don’t remotely resemble that. How are they always so together and everything works perfectly for them when not for me? You know the stories your mind tells you when you see what others are posting or sharing about.
Well now I want you to look at the second picture…the one of the muffins once they are out of the pan. They are a jumbled mess! They don’t remotely resemble the muffins in the first picture as they were in the pan…instead there are blueberries missing, crumbs everywhere and possibly only one muffin that didn’t totally come apart when taken out of the pan.
How many times is that part of a person’s life not shown or we don’t see it? We just see that first picture and jump to all kinds of conclusions. When in fact, they are just showing one part of their life before their “muffins and blueberries” are lifted from the pan.
So the next time you see something in someone’s life that looks perfect and your life is feeling anything but…remember the muffins and blueberries!
Plus one very important thing to remember….
These muffins will taste the same as they did when they looked perfect!
There are probably even more lessons to be learned from this but that’s what stood out to me as I scraped them out of the pan…that I had spent time greasing!!
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