What do you do when your favorite place to be gets so thick or sticky you loose your new shoes? Do you stomp about complaining how hard it is to walk, or simply buy another pair of new shoes? The best part of peanutbutter is learning to melt it so it isn’t so sticky, melting down the thickness so it becomes malleable, palatable and tasty. That’s how patience works. You don’t need to buy new shoes even when things get sticky if you have patience.
Patience is a lesson we all have to learn; some learn early, others have to learn the hard way, repeatedly. Like learning to spread cold peanutbutter on soft bread. It takes patience and learning techniques to make the combination successfully work together. My favorite combination is peanutbutter and honey or strawberry jam, yummy.
A life of constant instant gratification can often cause missing the most important aspect of patience, the moment. God makes us wait for a reason, he wants us to enjoy the moment for a reason, so he intentionally puts obstacles in our path to teach us patience.
If you find yourself in the Peanutbutter Cafe, you have a choice, you can remove your shoes and feel the soft smoothness that oozes between your toes, the way your warmth melts down the thickness and thins it out. You can learn techniques like toasting the bread to melt the peanutbutter or wait until the room has warmed the jar. That’s what patience feels like when used properly.
Or, you can go buy another pair of new shoes.
PS don’t eat the peanutbutter after your feet have been in it :–)
