Listening to the Song of the Kitchen

Today when I was preparing to get dinner started for 110 people or so I was caught off guard by the mesmerizing beat of the sound of the kitchen. I realized that it doesn't matter where you are there is a song to be heard a melody that rises if you only stop and listen. How many songs do I miss a day because I am wrapped up in the task I was given or am to inwardly focused?
It starts with that low constant thump and then you find that all other sounds want to join in the chorus. It makes me wonder about the conductor. Beneath the ambient noise is a song that makes your soul move and your feet start tapping. "a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance" Find your rhythm and DANCE... Even if it is in the Kitchen!

Do I dare disturb the universe?

" Do I dare disturb the universe? In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. For I have know them all already, known them all-have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons. I have measure out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with a dying face beneath the music from a farther room. So how shoudl I pressume? And I have known the eyes already known them all-They eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase, And when I am formulated sprawling on a pin, when I am pinned and wriggling on the wall. then how should I begin?" T.S. Eliot

Looking in the wrong direction

I wonder how often we are found this way face turned away gazing in the wrong direction scanning the horizon, when what we are looking for is right next to us. You say... "Rest in ME. Wait upon Me. Come apart with Me. Seek My face. Seek my Fellowship. O Lord, what shame that You should need to beg us thus! Better that others might find us unavailable vecause of our occupation with You, rather than for us to be so slow to come, so dull to hear, so cold of heart, so indolent of soul." Oh the day when I turn around and look full in His glorious face. Let thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. " We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." T.S. Elliot

Thirst. Sete. δίψα.

"God, You are my God; I eagerly seek You. I thirst for You; my body faints for You in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water." Psalm 63:1 I really dont like drinking water if you offer me a choice between it and just about anything else I will choose the something else. "However, water tastes so very good when you are thirsty! Clear and cold, there is nothing more delicious and satisfying. You do not have to guess when you are thirsty, or time thirst like you would taking medication. Our healthy body demands the fluid replacement and lets us know relentlessly until we succumb to the desire to drink and satisfy our craving. Extreme thirst is waiting too late; we are probably by then very low on this essential nutrient. We are up to 75% water; our body needs water to function, to regulate our body temperature, and is the element for transporting oxygen and nutrients it also safeguards our organs and more."
Therefore I have learned a valuable lesson of what I often need I dont necessarily want. Here comes the metaphor...
"Jesus answered, Everyone who drinks this water will be thirst again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." John4:13-14 When I need something or am desperate I am not afraid to call on the name of Jesus however, in every day mundane things or when I think I have things under control I usually dont even think of Him. If God made us out of the very fabric of Himself then I would need Him to restore, rejuvenate, and refresh me. The great thing about drinking water is the more you drink it the thirstier you are on a daily basis, ironic? You can fit the rest of the metaphor together as you please. Just some passing thoughts to chew on or drink up as it were.

"My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt..."

"How singular is the thing called pleasure and how curiously related to pain, which might be thought to be the opposite of it... yet he who pursues either is generally compelled to take the other; their bodies are two but they are joined by the same head." Socrates
I have been strangely attuned to the cycle of life and death lately; something is always dying and something is always being birthed to life. Blink... that is the span of your life in light of eternity. Also the cycle of pain and pleasure are quite curious to me as I learn to be in the world but not of it. "Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it was a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So that what seems the ugly doctrine is one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people who try to hold an optimistic view of this world would become pessimists: the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic." C.S. Lewis Oh that my view of this world might be changed. If only for a moment I could see the hand that holds time, and how quickly the chord could be drawn on the curtain. For one moment I could risk stepping outside the comfort of my formulas and text books to experience something bigger then myself that transcends my self imposed box of probability.
The worst thing is that I can do nothing about this but I must only wait and receive. You wouldn't think it would be hard to just rest and take it in, but my mind is busy and my hands fidget and soon I am off again working on a formula that I know will never be quite right. How we deceive ourselves. " Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him." James 1:2-5