Be Careful Or You Might Get Burned

Yesterday I felt a craving for some fresh peaches. Peaches remind me of my Daddy. He was raised in the upstate, so when peach season came around there was always a basket of peaches in the house to be enjoyed and shared. Every good gift should be enjoyed and shared ~ What sweet memories.



Anyway so, I headed to the farmers market with mother in law in tow. We had a wonderful time visiting the vendors and even got a free peach each to taste.



I got my peaches and I also got some good old southern butter beans. I froze some and saved some for a good southern meal tonight: chuck roast in the crock pot, fried okra, corn on the cob and BUTTER BEANS!



Well since I live in an old house with a kitchen that heats up as the day goes on, I decided to cook the butter beans this morning and start the roast in the crock pot, so that tonight there want be so much to cook - and not so much heat in the kitchen. The butter beans were cooking as I made some pimento cheese and man, they started to smell good! Well, I thought to myself "self - someone needs to taste those butter beans to make sure that they are seasoned just right." So myself faced with all of the temptations of smelling and thinking about and wondering about those butter beans decided to take a taste. "They look a little hot." "Oh, just cool them in the slotted spoon for a bit and it will be fine." "OK, that should be long enough." " I don't know, has that been long enough?" "Go ahead, they really do smell good!"



And NO it was not long enough! I do believe that I burned my tongue. And now - thank you very much self - I will not be able to taste the butter beans or anything else in my wonderfully planned mean tonight. So God whispered in my ear ~



That is the way that life here is. Be patient or you might get burned. He brought my thoughts to Abraham and Sarah who had been promised a son. They did not wait. They did get burned!



So often, we want to rush our way through life, but God doesn't work that way. He says "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways.."( Isaiah 55:8)

We want to take and taste before He has made us ready. Sometimes we want it before it has even cooked at all. God says take time. Let it simmer. Let me cook it up just right for you with all of the right seasoning and the blending of juices that takes time. Then let it cool a bit. Let me help you to wait until the temperature is just right - Not too cool, not too hot - so that you can appreciate it, and see it from my perspective. Let me teach you a few things while you wait. And then when you finally taste it you will be blessed!