Happy memories can be made even in crisis times. Let me explain. Saturday morning started benign enough. My teen daughter was making biscuits for breakfast and simply opened the oven door to take out the finished morsels. Suddenly, we were accosted with the sound of angry smoke detectors all over the house. We had a devil of a time getting the smoke detectors to shut off and STAY off! We opened all the windows and doors, which worked for a minute, and then they started gain. We then turned the house fan on, leaving the windows and doors open, but that helped only for 30 seconds or so. The obnoxious noisy things wouldn’t get the hint that everything was OK in the house. Finally my husband had to take a broom and bump the offending alarm that kept re-sounding the others. That did the trick.
Then later that day I find a Face Book post by my daughter:
“I’m a real woman now!!!! I cooked a meal and the smoke detector was my timer!!! I mean EVERY detector in my house went off!!! The awesome thing was the biscuts weren’t burnt!!”
I haven’t made the smoke detectors go off that often. However, I’ve made jokes about it when I have! For example, I call Di Giorno pizza “De-Burn-o” because when I made it once, I forgot to set the timer. It DID make the smoke detectors go off. We’ve laughed about it for years.
In life, we will have those ‘burning moments’ where there is no other thing to do but laugh. The secret to living successfully through those moments is, knowing this embarrassing moment doesn’t change our value. We are still precious treasures to our Lord. Nothing can take that away from us.
Thank You Lord, that the value You have ascribed to me is not depreciating!
I sent you an email … Smoke dectectors may be going bad…ours became very touchy and had to be preplaced when they were 9 years old…
LOL, Cee. It’s an ongoing joke at our house that dinner’s ready when the smoke detectors go off–and I rarely burn anything anymore. My past haunts me.