hope the following idea can be of use to youth ministries, Sunday schools, family devotionals and family home evenings.

I came up with an idea when doing the dishes. When I put my utensils in the dish rack to dry, I like putting the sharp edges of the knives pointing down. I also like having the spoons and forks point up as the handle takes up less room in the rack.

What’s my brilliant idea, after years of doing the dishes? Why not line them up in the preferred manner when I plop them into the rinse water? It only requires a brief twist of the hand to align the knives in the direction I want. If I can line them up there then I just have to grab them and plop them in the drain in the desired direction and I spend less time having my hand in the hot rinse water. Precious time is not lost lining them up individually. Building that idea, why not drop all the spoons in one area of the rinse water and all the knives in another. That way the utilizes are gathered by family and they’ll be easier to put in the drawer once they’re dry.

This object lesson can be compared to how we can prepare doing a task. If we often think about a task and plan it out, we might devise ways to save time and effort on how we do that task. The same principle of preplanning can be used in achieving multiple goals in our lives. Plan it out and then implement it.

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