Weekly e-news February 21, 2020

Hey, everyone!   Hope you’re having an awesome day! And if you’re not… if it’s just a tough one… if you’re struggling to get through it… if you feel weighed down with more than you can deal with… why not stop right now, right where you are, and take these simple steps…   Step 1) Take a deep breath…   Step 2) Read these words: “Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you!!” (1 Pet 5.6-7)   Step 3) Read them again…   Step 4) And again…   Step 5) One more time…with feeling!   Step 6) Try to figure out specifically what it is that is weighing on you, bothering you, worrying you…   Step 7) Do what Peter says! Cast that trouble, anxiety, bother, problem, whatever… on Him! “Cast” is the same word translated “throw upon” in Luke 19.35… When Jesus was almost to Jerusalem, and got ready to ride a donkey into town, ”they threw their cloaks on the colt”…   Whatever is bothering you…throw it on Him! Say to Him, “Here it is. I don’t know what to do about it. I can’t solve it, resolve it, fix it, or make it go away. I’m giving this problem to You. You take it!”   Seven easy steps to a more awesomer (“awesomer”?) day! Aren’t you glad you get your weekly Triple C email? While we’re on the subject… I was reading this book where this dude was himself also reading a book. The book he was reading was on prayer. The book he was writing that I was reading…(in which he talked about this book he was reading)…was also about prayer. (Man! That got complicated in a hurry!) Anyhooo… He said that in this book he was reading, it said that you shouldn’t pray about trivial things like parking places, as in, “God, give me a parking space.”   He told this to his mom, who after raising five kids, went to be a missionary in the slums of Uganda and Dublin, and who at 82, was living in London, reaching out to South Asian women, still a full-time missionary.  He shared this author’s feeling about trivial prayers… Her answer?   “How you supposed to find a parking place?”