Triple C News - March 13, 2021
Hey, everyone!
Hope you’re having an awesome, joy-filled day! And I’ve got some good news!
it’s “Spring Forward Sunday”!
The bad news is that you have to move your clock forward ONE HOUR at 2:00 am Sunday morning!
But here’s a little “hack” to give yourself just a little more sleep…
Why not move your clocks forward one hour just as you’re going to bed so you don’t have to wake up at like 1:55 am?
How ‘bout that for a tip?
Ever thought of that?!
Now that time change isn’t gonna be as tough on your system as it’s always been!!
And since it’s “Daylight savings time” and we’re talking about saving some time for the more daylight we’ll enjoy…
I’ve got some other time-saving “hacks” to save you hours in the kitchen!
A “hack” is an amazingly clever time-saving and/or aggravation-saving solution to common chores.
Check out these kitchen hacks!
Want a new, fun way to fry some eggs? (What?! You don’t? Well, read this anyway! it’s neat…) Crack your eggs into a Christmas cookie cutter in the frying pan!
Bam!
I’m dreamin’ of an egg-white Christmas!
(Only use the metal kind. Plastic cookie cutters and hot frying pans don’t get along.)
How ‘bout this one? Use unscented dental floss to cut cheese or birthday cake!
(Oh…also make sure it’s unused!)
Ever thought of this? You can use your cheese grater to grate nutmeg! So easy and time-saving! And it’ll give your next grilled cheese sandwich just a faint whiff of the holidays!
This is amazing! To cook bacon in your hotel room, simply wrap it in foil and use the iron in the closet to IRON it! Isn’t that cool?
(OR…Simply go down to the lobby. They usually have some by the cereal dispenser thingy.)
If you can’t get tiny bits of egg shells out of the egg you just cracked, lick your fingers ’til they’re wet and pick it out! It work like a miracle! (And we won’t tell your friends that you put spit in their food.)
Speaking of saving time…
Sometimes when I have nagging doubts about whether or not God really loves me, I find this costs me time. I move a little slower and I’m less decisive…which is a time-waster.
I was reading an amazing, old book by a British pastor from “days of yore” who offered several suggestions (“hacks”, if you will) for how you could feel the love of God more consistently during the day, every day…
“Never leave your room in the morning without a distinct apprehension of the fact that “the Father Himself loveth you.” (John 16: 27)…”
Wow! So simple! Yet, when I forget that, how “unsimple” it all gets!
2) “Ask the Holy Spirit--who sheds abroad the love of God in the heart, and who brings all things to our remembrance--that you may hear the whispers of His still small voice, perpetually reminding you that God loves you…”
This is a great one! The Apostle Paul always prayed that the Holy Spirit would help folks feel things! (Romans 15:13, for instance…)
3) “Accept all lovely things--gentle words; kindly acts; gleams of sunlight; the songs of birds and the scent of flowers--as being the token of His love; and look up with a smile to Him, as you say, “I thank Thee…”
Daffodils, for example! The dogwoods and tulips are on the way!
When they bloom, sniff and say, “I thank Thee!”
4) “Avoid all things that are inconsistent with the fact of your being God’s beloved child; all irritableness and fretfulness; all petulance and anger; all ill-speaking and uncharitableness…”
I put horror movies and all cable news in this category…If you want to feel God’s love, best to avoid these.
5) “Do the meanest and most trivial things for the love of God, as one constrained by that love not to live to self, but to Him; and let your one aim be to do all things as one whom God loves…”
This was the secret of Brother Lawrence, the French friar of the 1600’s.
He was always so joyful and explained that he just did every chore…
saying prayers…
doing the dishes…
weeding the garden…
or “picking up a piece of straw”(!)…
in a way that pleased God!
Just an attitude that says, “Whatever I think, say, or do, I wanna just please You!”
That should save you tons of time!
Oh! Did you know that if you poke a hole in each end of a hard-boiled egg and blow, it will literal jump out of the shell?
I better stop.