by Joanne Wiklund
June can be a productive month unless I start thinking about shad flies on roads and ants on garage floors. For ants on floors I now use baking soda. I read a small book someone sent me with 1001 uses for baking soda. I’ve been trying them out.
Baking soda does not smell, not like ant killer. Recommended to kill weeds in cement cracks, but it hasn’t worked so well there. I use it with vinegar to clean my kitchen sink drains when I need to. Remember the volcanoes kids used to make in science class projects? That’s what I think about when I do my drains. Follow it with hot running water and they work well.
We can learn something new every day. I try hard to do that. Learning scripture is like that. We can read the same passage or hear it over and over. It seems to say the same thing to us. Then one day we hear or read it and we think Wait a minute. I’ve never thought of it that way.
Mark Twain once said he never experienced Writer’s Block. He wrote on each manuscript till he couldn’t write any more. Then he put it on a shelf and left it there. He said he felt it stopped flowing because he hadn’t lived long enough or learned enough to know how to go on. He published many of those on the shelf books. We can through prayer, however, go to the source for answers that helps us through projects that seem like DIY things we need to do. We have standards in the Bible to help us evaluate and choose the right values for us. WWJD was a slogan for a long time. Bible school is coming up. Educating and equipping children with answers before they need them is so important. If you have time to help with VBS. volunteer now.
2 Timothy 3:15 “And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.”
2 John 5 “And now I beseech thee, Lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, but that we love one another.”