Too Hot, Too Cold, Just Right

January 21st, 2010 |

In the classic children’s tale “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”, the little blonde haired tyke is having some difficulty getting situated in the home of the bears. The size of the chairs, the temperature of the porridge, and the firmness of the beds are all problems that must be overcome.  I suppose that the moral of this story could be “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.  Better yet, “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” as she was an uninvited guess.  But for us today, I want to focus on the reality that many times it is difficult to get things  “JUST RIGHT.”  That seems to be the dilemma as we try to set the building temperature for everyone at DHBC.  I don’t know if it the season or the system, but it seems like it has been a little more difficult to regulate lately.  We are having the system checked out to see if there is a problem and we have raised the thermostats to see if that will help.  However, sometimes getting it cozy in one spot means we are overdoing it in another place.  It is simply the nature of the beast. Part of the challenge in the MPC is the air sock.  It does a great job evenly distributing airflow, but when it comes on, it sounds like a freight train moving through the building.  This is not very conducive to worship, or a message, unless you are preaching on the “second coming”. J   To solve this problem, we must continually pump air through the socks during service times, which is why you sometimes feel a draft.  The bottom line is – we are trying to hit a happy medium, somewhere between shivering and sweating.