Cooking
Well I just got done cooking. As I sit here drinking my Diet Dr. Pepper that I sooooo very much worked for, why you ask? -Why?- I seemed to botch a cheese dip I was making for a party I'm going to tonight. Well a few lessons can be learned from it. One cheese burns....a lot. Two it can layer up on the bottom of the pot. Three always have a plan of action. And fourth and finally do the add-ins first then work on the main parts of the Dip. Oh and real quick...TAKE YOUR TIME!!!!! The whole problem I had with this dish I was making was that I went into it knowing it would and should take the whole afternoon. ::Looks at clock:: Its early in the afternoon I know. Well I went in and thought hey maybe if I take this short cut, or this short cut I should be done quickly...this might might of been true had I used the right cooking equipment. This is much like life. We know that if we put long and intensive work and sweat into almost anything it will turn out well. But what do we do? We try and speed things up, we try a short cut or even see we have a problems with the tools we have but go a head anyways. The best part about the time was tat I kept calling my mom for ways to fix or save my dip. The mantra she would usually say was calm down and slow down. In life this can be like us calling for help from God. The thing was while I was calling my Mom my roommate and suitemate were close around me so i felt a little embarrassed. Embarrassment, ah the ultimate encouragement and discouragement. It can be used to make you do something or to make you not do something. This being said its amazing how few times in the day you are encouraged to pray, or to talk to God, and how may times your are discouraged from praying. Sometimes the discouragement comes from the out side and some times from what we are doing. I have no time so I won't pray. I have to think of this so I won't pray. I have to cook his so I won't pray. In the end it was my Mom who helped me save my dip, with her mantra wait and calm down. I wonder if we ever took the time to pray how many times would God's message be to slow down calm down. This is a lesson to myself to next time I need to make something that take a while...take that wile, slow down, calm down and pray. Oh and call Mama.