I’m eating my toast with a fork this morning. Crazy, right?
I have a medical appointment soon so have to dash but I haven’t done breakfast yet and so … toast. With peanut butter and honey! And a cup of hot tea. And then the Lord gives me a thought to share with you and I don’t want to forget it. If I don’t jot it down right now the thought will slip away. If I go to my keyboad and type a few lines, my toast will go cold and stiff, the honey will run off the toast and all over the plate, and possibly worst of all … the tea will go cold! Which is just the worst because the tea needs to be hot for the preferred enjoyment of the peanut butter and honey.
However, I have learned from several past attempts, that the results are not happy if I try to eat PB&H toast while at the keyboard.
So I cut the toast into bite-sized pieces and grabbed a fork! Toast with a fork! My husband Ron would have probably thought this normal. His English heritage meant forks and knives for every kind of meal except breakfast cereal or a dish of ice cream, and maybe a taco. But I digress.
The thing is when the Lord gives you a thought to share, you need to go with it in the moment. Discernment about whether this is a worthy thing to share will come later with prayerful consideration and a re-read. But in the moment … a fork is required!
What’s your fork-required moment? What is the thing that the Lord is bringing to mind? The fresh happening of God’s grace and mercy you have experienced and that is meant to be shared right now?
That is the new song the Lord will put in your mouth as David writes about in the Psalms …
Sing to him (the Lord) a new song;
play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts. Psalm 33.3
He put a new song in my mouth,
a song of praise to our God. Psalm 40.3
God is worthy of our praise over the ordinary and the extraordinary. The frog choir from the nearby retention pond. The tender sweetness of a babe sleeping on his mommy or daddy’s shoulder. New lambs. New marriage. 100th birthdays! The recovery of what was lost. Of being found and reclaimed when you were lost.
Sing a new song to the Lord!
And then maybe celebrate with the delight of PB&H with hot tea. I highly recommend it. Fork optional.
Blessings, Colleen
P.S. Join us Saturday, May 10, 10am for a delicious cup of coffee and learn how to do a professional manicure. Bring your favorite nail polish and the rest will be provided.