Good Morning TSJ Peeps!
Well, life is very full here at the TSJ headquarters and we are doing our best to gradually adapt to being here without our chief encouragement officer, Mr. Tom. Well, at least not here in flesh and blood. But we will continue to share with you things we are learning. . . even if we are sometimes reluctant learners.
I took a picture of SJ …. Solomon is off to the side trying to get SJ to listen…and SJ was listening in the way young folks do. Busily listening.
It seems he had slid over on the desk and was going to “google about jump starters” since Solomon was talking about learning how to jumpstart peeps’ hearts.
Solomon warned him that was not a good idea to mess with someone’s computer.
So here is what unfolded this morning. I brought the boys downstairs to the office because that is what Tom would have done. It is time.
Then I had my “sip it and zip it ” (quiet)-time with God, and came down to the office (a wee bit hesitantly because I like to avoid those dreadful sad attacks just like everyone else). However, one can never predict them. They are sneaky in their approach, unpredictable, and definitely a drain on one’s heart battery.
But this morning I heard Solomon telling SJ that we need to share the wonders of how to help peeps jumpstart each other’s heart batteries when they stall or downright quit for a bit.
He told SJ all drivers should have jumper cables in their car in case they or someone else needs help. And he said we all have cables that go from heart to heart. They are made of positive and negative beliefs that either regenerate us or deplete us. We all have both. Just like car jumper cables.
And just as he was telling SJ that very thing, I came in and found SJ at my computer trying to learn about jumper cables and jumpstarting. But he did not know what a password was and why he shouldn’t just help himself to my computer.
SJ was starting with the practical information and scientific inquiry before leaping to words of wisdom and bigger concepts. And Solomon let out a big sigh when I came to the rescue.
JUMPER CABLES
In my younger adult years when I drove old, cheap, and rusty cars I always knew to have jumper cables. Believe me, I was often grateful for them. And back then, we didn’t carry battery chargers etc. in our cars. So we needed two cars. One person shared with another in need. The one that had a dead or very nearly dead battery and one that was humming along full of energy or, the donor car.
Of course there is science behind its success and while one does not have to understand the science, one does need some simple instructions. You know, the one, two, three’s of “how-to-jumpstart a battery “without causing further harm.
I learned to (1) park the cars near each other but not to touch each other. I learned (2) to turn off both cars and any extra drains on the batteries first. (3) Then to connect the red (or positive) terminal of the dead battery to the positive terminal of the donor or live battery. (4) Then to connect the black cable to the negative terminal on the donor car before clamping the other end of the black cable to a place of metal. You can clamp it to the other negative terminal but that could cause a spark and I was scared of that, so I chose the safer route.
(5) Then you turn on the donor car and let it idle for a bit (with some acceleration) before the receiving car starts its engines.
There is not a nicer sound in the world in such times than a successful jump start! After all, who likes to be stranded?
HEART STARTS
You can see where Solomon was taking SJ and now we are going together, can’t you?
Do you feel some low battery going on in your heart?
Do you need a jumpstart?
Or do you sense someone you love needs that and you are unsure of how to proceed?
The same principles may apply. You need someone to share their connection with you. As with a car, you get as close as you can but allow space between you. Allow your trusted friend or confidant to connect their heart cables with yours. First quietly…turning off all engines…so you start together.
No judging, just connecting. Once cables are connected you feel that sense of being heard and understood and of course, loved, the “the juice” is now flowing.
Then start your engines!
Once finished…leave the rest up to God and your friend. Put cables back in trunk for future use.
You, dear TSJ peeps, have been just that for me and my family. You are jumper cables for our hearts. Thank you. We are learning to move ahead together!
Solomon, SJ and I are very grateful. Lovey is too young to understand but she loves to be loved.
Come to think of it. Let’s just start there. Sincerely sharing the Shepherd’s Love.
Yes. That is almost as simple as one, two, three. Almost.
Solomon and Margie and SJ. Lovey is sleeping 🙂
