Bonus: An Blessing for my Kitchen Timer

Thursday, January 11

Blessed are you, kitchen timer, for your simplicity. You have no buttons, no batteries, and no other functionality. You have one job and you are perfect in it. Blessed are you.

Blessed are you for your discretion. You are just loud enough for me to hear you, and quite enough to not wake a sleeping child. Blessed are you.

And blessed are you for your confidence. My other timers ring and ring interminably and I have to hurry and turn them off. But when my coffee has finished brewing, you ring once, and you are satisfied that you have done your job well and that I have heard you. Blessed are you.