Supply & Demand

Christmas is that time of the year when the demand is greater than our supply.

We struggle to keep up and our process of hand-crafting everything fresh on-site in our little chocolate house and kitchen in Hawai`i, feels so impossible to keep up. As soon as we restock one item, then another becomes “sold out” and then as we get closer to the holiday, it all catches up to us and the whole website page is bleeding red with notes of “sold out.”

It’s a push every holiday season and the only time of the year that we experience this challenge regardless if we hire more people before the holidays or bring in the most volunteers ever (8) to help in our additional space upstairs in the Chocolate House.

These chocolate hand-decorated gingerbread cookies were made to resemble our chocolate shop/kitchen/house in Mānoa, and they sold out with our pre-orders even before we launched the Christmas specials on Black Friday.

It’s a weird feeling. So grateful for the demand, but also so anxious that we can’t supply it. On one hand we’re so happy people love our chocolates so much and on the other hand, we’re so disappointed we can’t make everyone happy.

We can work and work and work, but when things still feel out of control, I am reminded that I need to give it to God. It’s the only way I can find some peace (which is what we are trying to promote through out chocolates), is in knowing we are making one chocolate at a time, ultimately for an audience of one.

We planned ahead, we prepared, and we all worked incredibly hard, but sometimes it still doesn’t feel like enough. As we try to perform for everyone, we must fix our eyes back on THE one God and try not to miss what He may be teaching us.

For me, I know it’s the same gentle nudge getting a little harder and louder to “let go.”

What is a demand in your life that you need God to supply?

Let’s find peace by piece when we let go, and let Him take control.

“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much…” -Luke 16:10