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Wednesday, 6 April 2022

Sweetener

 

Back to squeezing lemons, chopping ginger and making the drink with honey to try to banish a nasty cold.

Of course, in these days there is no such thing as ‘just a cold’ until the test has been taken. Negative. Whew. Ten-day quarantine averted again.

The lemon and ginger would be undrinkable were it not for the honey. ‘Just a spoonful of sugar…’ Mary Poppins sang. How true that is with so much in life. There’s nothing wrong with sweetening the pill a bit, is there?

How sweet the sound of Jesus’ Name in a believer’s ear. We used to sing that. Just the sound of his name brings light into the darkness, sweetness into the sour situations: and it is there in every need. I often find myself just breathing his Name as I listen to horrific news items, or hear of sad stories of abuse or need, or am in the middle of situations I have no way of fixing.

Jesus. Name above all names. He sweetens the most bitter of pills.

Now back to the lemon and honey.

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