Showing posts with label Corona virus advice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Corona virus advice. Show all posts

Sunday, March 15, 2020

Happy National Peanut Lovers Day & It's the Ides of March

William Shakespeare keeps the Ides of March alive through his writing of Julius Caesar.  "Beware, the Ides of March."
The Romans considered the Ides of March (today) as a deadline for settling debts.  How much debt do you have?  Can you imagine having to settle it (pay up) today?  That's enough to beware of it!

Enough about debt.

I wonder if peanuts are a delicacy for elephants.  Peanuts are so small and elephants are so big; maybe they eat them by the bucketful.  Do you remember the steak house where people threw peanut shells on the floor?  I didn't like that place.  It's hard enough to teach kids to pick up after themselves and that just defeats the purpose and creates bad manners and potential lawsuits for walking hazards.

Did you know:
It takes around 540 peanuts to make one 12-oz jar of peanut butter.
Studies show that people who eat nuts regularly live 2-3 years longer than non-nut eaters.
Archibutyrophobia is the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth.
Half of the world's nuts are poisonous to people.

How do you like your peanut butter?
On a spoon?
In a cookie?
As a sandwich?
From the shell?
Surrounded by chocolate?
Crunchy?
Creamy?
In a comic strip?
In a box surrounding breakables?

Here's some free advice on slowing down the Corona virus from my grandson, Aaron.  It's a conversation he and his mom had recently.
So Aaron was asking me about Corona virus before I dropped him off this morning...
Aaron:  What is it anyway?
Mom:  Just a virus you can get like a bad cold or pneumonia.  You just have to make sure you're washing your hands like you're supposed to and try not to touch your face so the germs don't get in your body through your mouth or nose.
Aaron:  So you need to not lick people either.
Mom:  Yes, I will do my best to stop licking everyone.  😂 😛

Romans 13:7 Give to everyone what you owe them; if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.


Friday, March 13, 2020

Happy Good Samaritan Day & It's Friday the 13th

Fear of Friday the 13th has become so embedded in superstition that psychologists have made it an illness, calling people paraskevidekatriaphobes.  If you're going to claim it, you have to be able to pronounce it!  Don't curse Friday the 13th of any month of any year.  It's a day the Lord has made and we are to rejoice and be glad in it.

Be a Good Samaritan.  You've heard the same admonitions so many times:
Pay for the order of the person behind you
Compliment people
Let someone go ahead of you in line
Smile
In light of current circumstances worldwide, how about doing these:
Wash your hands
Keep your distance
Blow kisses (probably not to strangers though)
Elbow bump if you must
Don't share your drink
Don't fight people for toilet paper

Followers of Christ, remember God is our Provision and Protector.  We are covered in the blood of the Lamb just like the Israelites covered their doorposts so the angel of death would pass over them.  God protected the Israelites in the land of Goshen and the plagues that plundered Egypt didn't cross their borders.  That's the God we serve!  Don't let the enemy walk all over you.

Isaiah 26: 3-4  He will keep in perfect peace all those who trust in Him, whose thoughts turn often to the Lord!  Trust in the Lord God always, for in the Lord Jehovah is your everlasting strength.