{"id":501,"date":"2011-05-23T03:07:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T07:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/fearofwhales\/?p=501"},"modified":"2011-05-23T16:30:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T20:30:01","slug":"hot-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fearofwhales\/2011\/05\/hot-sauce.html","title":{"rendered":"Hot Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The head of our Inner-City Mission Project is named Gerry<\/p>\n

Gerry is a great old man, very wise and very neurotic, a few months ago at a staff conference I sat down with him for breakfast.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere did you get Cholula?\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m pretty sure that\u2019s the first thing I ever said to him. I was bemoaning the bland eggloaf thing they were serving for breakfast and was more than a little surprised to see my favorite sauce for eggs at the table. He didn\u2019t answer the question, but looked at my name tag.<\/p>\n

\u201cRyan, when you enter a room, you need to exegete your surroundings: Observe, Interpret, Apply. Otherwise you miss things in plain sight.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAre you saying the Cholula is in plain sight because I looked around and I-\u201c<\/p>\n

\u201cYou looked where you thought you should look, you did not observe. The Cholula is avaliable, there\u2019s about 10 other condiments there too\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I looked around quizzically, I still did not see any condiment bar \u201cAnd you noticed this the first day?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst meal, sure\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWow, did you think to tell anyone?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWould you like some?\u201d<\/em> he said finally passing the bottle to me. I took it, he continued<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t tell people everything you know, you live that way, others will take notice. I wish Christian leaders could learn this.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The rest of breakfast was consumed with conversation about philosophy and hot sauce. Gerry constantly borrowed analogies from evangelism and mission to describe the properly examined omelet. I took notes.<\/p>\n

Gerry\u2019s not at this camp, but when I needed something for my vegetable medley I remembered what he said, and carefully looked around the room. To my surprise I found Tabasco Sauce randomly hanging out in a little alcove at the salad bar.<\/p>\n

I started eating my food with Tabasco at every meal, then other staff members joined in. I don\u2019t think the camp was used to people actually knowing where to find the sauce because by the second week they had run out!<\/p>\n

Now the trick is to do that with treasures besides hot sauce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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