The Pit of Change: Where Patience Meets Faith

​Change is a lot like barbecue.
 
You don’t rush it, and you don’t always control how it unfolds. You prepare, you commit, and then you trust the process.
 
When the meat first hits the pit, everything looks uncertain. The fire is set, the smoke begins to rise, and then comes the waiting. No instant results, no clear outcome, just time, heat, and faith that what’s happening beneath the surface is working in your favor.
 
That’s what change feels like.
 
You step into something new, and suddenly the familiar is gone. The timing feels slow. The outcome feels unclear. You question if you made the right move. But just like barbecue, transformation doesn’t happen on the outside first, it happens within.
 
There’s a moment pitmasters know well, the stall.
The temperature stops rising. Progress looks frozen. It feels like nothing is happening.
 
But something is happening.
 
The meat is breaking down, softening, becoming something entirely different than when it started. That’s what change does. It stretches you, refines you, reshapes you in ways you can’t always measure in the moment.
 
This is where many pull back.
They turn up the heat, rush the process, or step away too soon.
But those who understand the process stay steady.
 
They trust the fire they set.
They trust the preparation they made.
And most importantly, they trust what they cannot see.
 
That’s where faith grows.
 
Faith is not built when everything is predictable.
It is strengthened in the waiting, in the uncertainty, in the moments where you have no choice but to believe that what’s happening now is leading to something greater later.
Change will always feel unfamiliar. It will stretch your comfort, test your patience, and challenge your control. But it also carries the potential to produce something richer, deeper, and more meaningful than what you started with.
 
Because in the end, barbecue teaches a simple truth,
what takes time, trust, and patience always turns out better than what is rushed.
 
Sam The Lasagna Lady®