As I sip my coffee on this bitterly frigid afternoon, I think back to a time when not coffee, but OJ, was my drink of choice first thing in the morning. I just couldn't start the day right without a tall glass of OJ, and if the container was empty, I was an intensely grumpy world-hater. I don't really know how I changed from that, but I hardly ever drink OJ now, and coffee is by far the most important provision from God's creation for my morning.
But back then - in "the OJ days," we could call them - I started another morning habit that I still practice. I grew fond of English Muffins (the Thomas brand!) - toasted, with butter and raspberry jelly (seeded!). I still buy those by the bushel, and since I eat them so much and have been trying to find creative ways to spend my spare moments throughout the day, I have started noticing a variety of things I can do in the 2-3 minutes that my late-morning delight is toasting. Here are a few:
{make the bed}
{put away the clean dishes}
{add some items to the grocery list}
{sort yesterday's mail}
{clip my fingernails}
{pay a bill online}
{sweep the kitchen floor}
And the possibilities go on. It's so much better than standing in front of the toaster and then jumping through the roof when it pops because you were staring at the hot coils daydreaming. (That's happened to me.) So maybe you're a college student and can't have a toaster in your dorm, or maybe you have a toaster and just don't eat English Muffins. But either way, I bet you do have those couple minutes every once in a while that you're tapping your foot waiting on something to be done.
Of course, sometimes I just like to sit down and not do anything while I'm waiting. And other times, my fingernails are too long and I just can't stand it anymore. And that's when I love those "spare" minutes.
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