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Simple as Sliced Swiss

December 7, 2011 by Amelia

Thank you all so much for your kind words of support and encouragement after my post yesterday. Although writers can turn into hermits while working on a project, no author ever truly writes in a vacuum. I believe it’s the community of family and friends pouring into my life that helps keep my writing real and meaningful. I appreciate each one of you!j

With this added workload, I’ve been working to keep life simple. Have you heard the acronym K.I.S.S., meaning “Keep It Simple Sweetie”? I have a new acronym: S.A.S.S. Simple as Sliced Swiss.

Last week while I was signing up to bring an item for our Bible Study Fellowship leader’s Christmas fellowship, the “desserts” line caught my eye. I love everything about desserts. I love desserts waaay too much. I love to plan to make them, I love to make them, I love to eat them, I love to share them with others. As my pen reached to write my name under desserts, I glanced at the line above. They also needed sliced swiss cheese.

I moved back to desserts. But hard as I tried, I could not write my name on the line for desserts. I instinctively knew that I shouldn’t bring a dessert. It might seem like a small matter, but making a dessert to bring to the fellowship would have taken a couple hours at best – shopping for ingredients, planning, baking, and packing up to bring. Sliced swiss only takes a moment to buy at the store. It felt like such a cop out. But it was no less a need than desserts were.

I sighed and wrote my name down to bring sliced swiss. The time I save not baking a dessert is a “crack of time” that can be spent writing. For this season of life, God has called me to bring sliced swiss, not to bake. There will be a season to bake and sew and make handmade cards again – when there isn’t a deadline hanging over my head.

This week when I glanced at the sign up sheet again – all the lines for desserts were filled, but there were still empty slots for sliced swiss.

I now dub this season of my life to be S.A.S.S.

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