Triple C News - March 10
Ayup, everyone!
Yikes! I just said, “Ayup!” That is ridiculous! I’m losing it!
For those who don’t know, “Ayup” is a British way to say, “Hey!” or “Hello!”
The reason I know is that we’ve been watching a couple of shows from BBC British TV! And since we’ve been watching, I’m learning loads of British expressions. You can say “Hello!” in lots of ways over there! Beside “ayup!”, you can say…
“How do?
“Hey up!”
Alrigh’?
We’ve been watching this BBC series on PBS about a vet from Scotland in the 1930’s and sometimes their accent when they speak our common language is so thick I don’t understand most of the stuff they say!
Even a few of the stars of the thing! So I miss a lot!
But when I can understand them, I realize they have lots of expressions we don’t use but they do!
Sometimes they talk about someone getting”sacked” (fired from a job) and someone “nicked” something (stole something that wasn’t theirs)…
If someone says something stupid, it’s “rubbish!” (That one says what it means to!)
If you’re upset, impatient, and you need to calm down, in the UK someone might tell you to “keep your hair on”. This actually makes more sense than “keep your pants on”, as we used to say! If you’re agitated or frustrated, you might pull your hair out, so you need to keep it on.
(But you wouldn’t take your pants off!)
The one they use a lot is my fav…If you’d like to talk with someone in private, you don’t say, “Could I talk with you about something?” This seems pretty serious and scary sometimes… But they say…
“Could I have a word?”
Muuuuuch less drama!
“Could I have a word?”
Not a lot of them! Just one! Less intimidating!
I’m going to start using that one!
In that show “All Creatures Great and Small” one of the expressions they started using when the Second World War looked like it was coming, is “I want to do my bit”. Everyone felt that it was important that each contribute to the overall effort for victory. No one could do much alone, but if everyone did their share…”their bit”…in the end, it would be enough!
And each felt an obligation to “do their bit”.
I love that!
As followers of Jesus, we’re in a spiritual war for the encouragement of hearts, the global and local evangelization of the souls of men and women and boys and girls, and for the spreading of the love of Jesus here at home and around the world! The consequences are eternal! Everyone of us has a spiritual empowerment (almost like a superpower!) to do some job in the army of Jesus around the world in the quest for love, justice, and bringing new brothers and sisters into the family of God. You can’t open someone’s heart to Jesus. You can’t end racism or hunger alone. But what if everyone who believed in Jesus and loved Him…
“…did their bit”?
What if…
above all else…
while we still have time…
we all felt a burning in our hearts…
”to do our bit”?
Hmmm….It must be what Jesus meant when He told us to pray...
“Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done…”
If His will was done by each of us…
In other words…
if we all did our bit…
maybe it WOULD come!
Well, I better go.
“Cheers then!”