Triple C News - May 26
Hey, everyone!
Hope you’re having an awesome, joy-filled day!
May you find all the peace you need for this day!
May you find all you need for all your needs today!
May you find all your hopes fulfilled!
May you find all your eggs they’ve laid!
(Wait. I didn’t really mean to say that.)
It’s been a long month, folks!
Tina was in California for most of it and I “got” to care for the goats and all her chickens!
I learned alot!
Goats? They’re simple! They eat grass and drink out of the creek!
Chickens? Well…it’s complicated!
Did you know there’s a difference between chicken feed and “chicken scratch”?
Chicken feed is nutritious and boring. Chicken scratch is less of that but a lot sweeter!
It’s like the difference between your kids eating oatmeal or Cap’n Crunch with Crunch Berries every morning.
After two days of that, they were hopping all over the place!
Tina said, “I bet they LOOOVE you!!”
And I didn’t really know that chickens lay their eggs all over the place!
Sometimes they lay them in the chicken coop but lots of times they plop ‘em on the ground somewhere! Sometimes, they leave them laid anywhere!
And sometimes they like to find a special hiding place…
It’s like Ol’ McDonald!
“With a laid egg here.
A laid egg there.
Here an egg.
There an egg.
Everywhere a laid egg!”
One of “the girls” found a secret favorite spot in the barn behind a gate. I’d check it everyday to see if she’d made her “deposit”. One day I walked in on her while she was “busy”.
I looked at her.
She looked up at me.
It was awkward!
Ever walk into a bathroom and the door wasn’t locked but someone was in there?
I thought I heard her cluck, “Occupied!”
You have to look for their eggs more than I imagined but they’re so worth the search!
Eggs are rich in choline for building new cells for old muscles!
They’ve got loads of lutrein for good vision so you can see better!
And they’re one of the only foods with Vitamin D! They’re a little round box of sunshine!
So, lately when I get up in the morning…get the coffee on(!!)…and read some Scriptures for my sleepy heart, I’ve been reading along with a “the Bible In a Year” plan.
Some mornings it can feel a little “random” in the sense of…
“if I was going to pick where and what to read in God’s Word for today, it might not necessarily have been this!”
But just like among the chickens, I find nutritious treasures everywhere!
Because just like when you’re gathering eggs…
I’m looking for them!
Like the other day…
My Scripture for the day was:
Ecclesiastes 4:1-6:12
2 Corinthians 6:14-7:7
Psalm 47:1-9
Proverbs 22:16
Coffee 2 cups-4 sugars (Wait! That was another thing!)
So I’m reading along, looking for treasures…
Looking…looking…looking…
“Hey! There’s one! Just the Scripture I need for today!!”
It was Ecclesiastes 5:19 and it had to do with enjoyment being an ability you can develop…
(It’s complicated but it was just what I needed!)
I find Scriptures every morning and sometimes in unlikely places that are kind of like…eggs!
They give me stronger spiritual muscles!
They improve my spiritual vision and help me see better!
And they’re…well… like sunshine to my heart!
And just like Farmer Tina’s chickens’ eggs, the reason I find them is…
I’m looking for them!