Do you like sugar?  How about a cup of it all at once?  Would you like to eat a half cup of all purpose flour?  I like apples but would I like eating six cups of thinly sliced, peeled cooking apples (2 pounds)?  Or 1/4 cup of butter?  I think not!  

These are all ingredients of apple pie.  When you take these ingredients plus cinnamon, ginger, mace.... put them in a pan and then in an oven for about an hour at 375° you get an apple pie.  Hot!  Yummy!

This is a good illustration of life.  There are some good things but too much of a good thing isn't appetizing or healthy.  Some things are bad and hard to digest.  Unappetizing.  But when God takes them, mixes them together, applies the right temperature for the right amount of time it produces life.  Sweet.  Tasty.  Enjoyable.

Take a look at Romans 8:28 "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to his purpose".  I see apple pie when I read this verse.