The dishwasher was full to the brim with a load of dirty dishes…and I had forgotten to buy detergent…big problem. Not willing to brave the blustery weather to return to the supermarket, or unload the machine and do all those dishes by hand, I looked online for a dishwasher detergent substitute. Many suggestions were to put two to three drops of Dawn liquid dish soap in the dispenser and top it up with baking soda. So I did. Voila! It worked like magic and will be my mode of cleaning dishes from here on in.
It made me think of some of the problems we face in life. We can’t always clean them away with conventional methods, and sometimes need to search for a substitute. For me that substitute is prayer…prayer that should have been the first course of action, but got lost in the effort of trying to solve things my own way
Putting a few drops of prayer into life’s problem dispenser and filling it up with God, can work wonders with the many difficult decisions that come our way.
Is any of you in trouble? He should pray. James 5:13
My Precious Life 
Thanks for a great post. We often forget there are alternatives to what we know and how we do things… If we realise there is a substitute waiting, we would all be less stress about everything! Right?
You are so right, Lili😊
Thank you for this reminder to pray. I usually remember, but it is so easy to cut prayer short, to not focus on the prayer experience, when we can’t see God and our faith is required.
We never know where God’s nudges will come from, Roger. Thanks for reading my post.