Heat Required

The other day before I left for work I prepared a meal in the crock pot. I use a timer to turn the crock pot on and off a the right amount of time depending on what I am cooking. I had made sure the time was set and would work correctly and took off. A little later in the morning I got a text message from one of the guys that lives in our house asking if the crock pot was suppose to be on? Apparently I had set the timer but hadn’t actually turned the crock pot on.

I had originally intended the crock pot to cook on LOW for 7.5 hrs, turning off after Kyle got home so dinner would be ready when he got there. Now since it hadn’t turned on at the right time, it had to cook for 3.5 hrs on HIGH. In the end the “Sweet and Spicy Chicken turned out perfectly.

I was thinking about it on the way home tonight and two lessons came to mind. First, for some things to turn out right heat is required. That meal would have been uneatable if there hadn’t been any heat. How many times to we complain when we are in a situation where the heat is turned on? It is in those times that we really find out what we can handle and the time of greatest growth.

The second thought was how often do we delay the heat by trying to avoid being in a tough situation only to make it tougher in the end. In our lives if we just step into the tough situations at the beginning the LOW heat is easier to handle. If we avoid then usually the heat is turned up on HIGH.