Hasty Pudding
Do you know what was eaten on the first Thanksgiving Dinner?
Despite what you may have been taught, the Mayflower pilgrims probably didn’t have ambrosia, ham, potato salad, and pumpkin pie. Almost assuredly, with their lack of resources, they had roots, berries, wild fowl and perhaps some hasty pudding. Hasty pudding is simply a cornmeal mush, so named for the short time it takes to prepare it.
A chef was preparing a Thanksgiving meal in a restaurant when a young man came running in the back door and shouted at him, “Carl, your house is on fire!” The chef immediately dropped his cookware and bolted out the door with his apron flapping in the breeze. After about fifty yards, he stopped in his tracks and said, “Wait a minute, my name isn’t Carl and I don’t even have a house!”
Most of us eat “hasty pudding” more often than we will admit. We go off half-cocked with incomplete information to an uncertain location. Happily, our Creator left this advice: “It is not good to have zeal without knowledge, nor to be hasty and miss the way” (Prov. 19:2 niv). We are to patiently wait on the Lord, for his timely and perfect course of action.
Despite what you may have been taught, the Mayflower pilgrims probably didn’t have ambrosia, ham, potato salad, and pumpkin pie. Almost assuredly, with their lack of resources, they had roots, berries, wild fowl and perhaps some hasty pudding. Hasty pudding is simply a cornmeal mush, so named for the short time it takes to prepare it.
A chef was preparing a Thanksgiving meal in a restaurant when a young man came running in the back door and shouted at him, “Carl, your house is on fire!” The chef immediately dropped his cookware and bolted out the door with his apron flapping in the breeze. After about fifty yards, he stopped in his tracks and said, “Wait a minute, my name isn’t Carl and I don’t even have a house!”
Most of us eat “hasty pudding” more often than we will admit. We go off half-cocked with incomplete information to an uncertain location. Happily, our Creator left this advice: “It is not good to have zeal without knowledge, nor to be hasty and miss the way” (Prov. 19:2 niv). We are to patiently wait on the Lord, for his timely and perfect course of action.