Triple C News - APRIL 21
Hey, everyone!
What a beautiful day! It’s 6:45 and my heart is full, my coffee mug is empty, my teeth are brushed and flossed…
(Sorry. That might have been a little too much info.)
and soon I’ll be headed down to Bud’s Coffee shop to meet and chat and maybe have another cup of the best coffee in town!
It’s such a friendly place! Owned and operated by Jim and Anne, who also share their talents and gifts, singing and playing in cathedrals and Broadway theaters in the Big Apple, it’s just the best place to sit across a table with friends or the regular morning “congregants” and share a joke, a thought or your heart’s deepest ponderings, depending on the moment.
There’s something about actually being together and sharing your thoughts in the way that takes a look, a gesture, or a tone of voice to fully convey! Social media’s awesome and all, but I’m soooo thankful that just being present will always be the best present you can give!
Sometimes a text just can’t communicate what you truly meant to say and sometimes a text will communicate something you never meant to say!
It was that way even before your phone was something you carried in your pocket rather than screwed to the kitchen wall!
Before Ebay and FB Marketplace, there was a time when folks sold their old stuff in the daily newspaper in a section called, “the classified section”.
Once a guy was trying to sell an old sewing machine in a British newspaper in his town (or do they call it a “towne”?) in North England.
On Monday, his ad said:
“FOR SALE- R. D. Tumblesby has one sewing machine for sale. Phone 02-348-0707 after 7 p.m. and ask for Mrs. Kettlemore who lives with him cheap.”
The next day…
“NOTICE-We regret having erred in R. D. Tumblesby’s ad yesterday. It should have read: One sewing machine for sale. Cheap. Phone 02-348-0707 and ask for Mrs Kettlemore who lives with him after 7:00 p.m.
Then on Wednesday…
“NOTICE-R. D. Tumblesby has informed us that he has received several annoying telephone calls because of the error we made in his classified ad yesterday. His ad stands corrected as follows: FOR SALE- R. D. Tumblesby has one sewing machine for sale. Cheap. Phone 02-348-0707 after 7:00 p.m. and ask for Mrs. Kettlemore who loves with him.”
Thursday…
“NOTICE-I, R. D. Tumblesby have NO sewing machine! I SMASHED IT! DO NOT CALL 02-348-0707, as the phone has been disconnected. I have NOT been carrying on with Mrs. Kettlemore. Until yesterday, she was my housekeeper but she quit!”
Well, I better go!
As it says in the little letter of 3 John:
“I have much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink…”
(Or text, I might add!)
“…I hope to see you soon and we will talk face to face…” (3 John 13-14)
Let’s face it. Nothing beats “face to face”!
As someone once said, “Just being present will always be the best present you can give!”
(I like that line! It belongs on a coffee mug somewhere!)