🙂 Hubby’s week off, first of two (with three weekends off, also).
🙂 Start of a new month yesterday. I like beginnings. Always a good time to reevaluate where I’m going, what I’m doing, and renew my energy with a fresh start on old goals or new.
🙂 One of our calendars has a very pretty November page. Actually, the whole calendar, with folk art by Mary Singleton, is lovely. Sixth Arrow and I were admiring the November page when we turned to it yesterday. It has a kitchen scene; an old wood floor with a checkered olive green and beige rug under the heavy wooden table. A mother is standing at the table, rolling out dough, while two little girls are sitting on red stools by a tray of cookies, and a little boy is standing on a chair next to his mother, with his hand in a bowl of dough. 😉 A grandmother is pulling a tray of cookies out of the oven. There’s a rocking chair at one corner of the rug, a butter churn standing in a corner, and lots of beautiful dishes displayed in open cabinetry. I was so inspired by the beauty of the scene, that I have decided to simply do one extra little thing each day this month to beautify one area of our home.
🙂 Excited to share the beautification journey this month with daughters who love beauty.
🙂 Bought a little plaque yesterday with blue flowers painted on it, and the Bible verse “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” (Phil. 4:13) That was my prettying up effort for November 1 😉
🙂 Listening to the sounds of happy children starting their day. Life is good.
🙂 I survived the first week of homeschooling! We didn’t have the curriculum until late Thursday, so I was just “winging it.” It will be so nice to have a plan to follow beginning Monday!
🙂 All the support I’ve received from others on this blog, especially the prayer support!
🙂 God’s peace regarding my decision to homeschool Becca for a season. I feel like I’m doing exactly what I’m supposed to be doing.
🙂 Being able to afford vision therapy for Becca (it’s not covered by insurance) for her visual processing disorder.
😦 The fact that Becca has a visual processing disorder
🙂 Thanking God the visual processing disorder can be corrected.
🙂 My sister. She’s been super helpful with my foray into homeschooling, even from halfway across the world.
😦 I won’t get to see her until next summer.
🙂 The internet, for making it possible for me to “talk” with my sister almost every day.
🙂 🙂 🙂 Handing the mean attendance lady the withdrawal letter from public school.
🙂 Never again having to prove my kid was sick with a doctor’s note! It’s so freeing!
🙂 It’s Saturday — and we get an extra hour of sleep tonight.
🙂 It’s November, fall is the best time of year, although I sometimes fall into a hibernating urge. 6 arrows, I love those folk art calendars, too.
🙂 Got in and out of jury duty in a day.
😦 The cat’s back at the vet — I need to pick her up this morning, had to leave her there overnight since I couldn’t get out of work in time yesterday to pick her up at the end of the day. The vet says the bite/puncture wound on her back near her tail looks like a mating thing. In other words, even though she’s spayed, a male cat may have tried to mount her, she objected and trouble ensued. But the wound was infected, oozing something foul smelling. Ewww.
😦 Stressful day yesterday with the airport shooting and editors who had us all running in crazy-making circles as they criticized us at every step since we weren’t keeping up with the TV news reporting. Oh, sorry, we forgot to summon the company helicopter with our vast numbers of reporters and photographers in the wake of years of repeated staff cuts. Everyone loses their heads on these stories nowadays with the added online pressure to be first.
🙂 I escaped being one of those called in to work the follow-up stories today.
🙂 Despite getting swept into the airport story madness, I finally got that pesky city election story done yesterday. I’ll probably have to work Tuesday (election) night but I may be able to do that from home for a bit of overtime.
😦 I am not spending enough time in Scripture these days.
Annms, they tend to get happier very quickly. You will still have some hard days, but always remember how your little girl was struggling. It is worth it to have a bad day once in a while.
🙂 A nice quiet week at home, without going anywhere except one nice walk in the woods.
🙂 I did the math, and in October we walked in four state parks, two of them twice. It’s nice to have a pass and only have to pay once!
🙂 I just ordered a book of photos (100 pages) of our walks in Indiana, from our own neighorhood to multiple state parks. Everything from a ladybug on a leaf to the grandeur of Turkey Run in fall splendor.
🙂 I got a really special deal on the book, 😦 but with shipping and taxes and one extra feature I added, it cost almost double the price of the special deal.
🙂 It still costs less to get books made than to order enlargements, and you don’t have the expense or wall space it takes to frame them.
🙂 The next-to-the-smallest of the five projects I’m working on will pay for the five books (including the anniversary books) I ordered over the last month, and I don’t have any others to do in the near future, so I guess it’s a justifiable “splurge.”
🙂 I’m making good progress on the third of my five projects, and by the end of the day I hope to have only two left (one big and one small).
Be sure to post photos of the lights when they’re on, Kare — that must be pretty to see a house all lit up out in the middle of a snowy landscape with nothing else around. 🙂
🙂 Surprise birthday party to a man who has played music for many events with my husband and daughter. I know there will be a lot of fellow musicians that we have not seen for awhile. There will also be a jam. Should be a lot of fun.
😦 Broken toilet. 🙂 Husband who had the part and could fix it ASAP.
😦 Broken faucet with a leak undetected until damage occurred. It did need to be replaced anyway and is small enough to do with out too much trouble. 🙂 Husband who can do it and will.
🙂 🙂 My dad is off his pump for antibiotic and is doing better.
😦 People on fb who twist the truth to make themselves look good at the expense of others. Nothing new, but still sad. Beware what you read. All is not what it seems. That should go without saying, but we need reminding.
😦 People who have gambled all their money away and will spend their last years in poverty. It is so sad to see.
You may remember an incident back in March, when my niece & her mom (my SIL) both unfriended me due my stance on same-sex marriage, even though I had not directly said anything about it. Although no longer Facebook friends, Niece & I still had a couple mutual friends, where we could read each others’ comments if we happen to comment on one of those friend’s posts.
Last night I commented on a post of one of those friends (the one I wrote about on yesterday’s news thread). Niece did, too. I did not address anything to Niece, & my comment was merely musing on a phrase someone else used in a comment. But then Niece’s comments disappeared, & when I checked, I realized she had blocked me.
That made me so sad, disappointed, & hurt. Unfriending wasn’t enough, she had to block me?
But of course, she & her family are very liberal & open-minded, & strongly believe in tolerance & diversity. Well, at least they think they do.
😦 Chrissy taking Peanut’s death very hard.
🙂 Emily found a knight costume at Costco for Forrest, for trick-or-treating. It’s very shiny, & it has a cool sword, which is why he liked it. 🙂
Being blocked means that it is as if the two of you don’t exist to each other. The kind of funny thing about it is I could see our mutual friend replying to Niece’s comments, but Niece’s comments no longer appeared to me. So from my vantage point, it looked like Mutual Friend had an imaginary friend she was talking to. 🙂
🙂 Bible study started again. I’m teaching on the second half of the Gospel of Matthew.
😦 My class of elderly women is shrinking to eight. I don’t mind teaching a small class, it just makes me sad they’re getting so old as to fade away.
😦 Book struggles. I need to finish this section tomorrow and I’m now considering drastic action which will require a rewrite of what I’ve done because of massive plot changes, which means a rewrite of the proposal before it can be sent to people waiting for it.
🙂 But I like it and I love the work.
😦 I was so tired from the week I slept in until 9 o’clock this morning. I don’t remember sleeping in that late in years.
🙂 LOTS of wonderful conversation and visits. I particularly enjoyed seeing an old friend for the first time in 16 years. Lots of difficult trials have come to their family and yet she spoke of them without malice or bitterness. It was a lesson to me, personally.
🙂 God is good. I’ve been focusing on his yoke is easy, his burden is light. That’s been very helpful.
🙂 :_9
I’m up early, but my body doesn’t think so. I’m waiting around for breakfast because I don’t want to wait so long before lunch. I’ll be sitting in SS wanting to get out for lunch.
😀 Solar eclipse – We didn’t get the full one, as we are several degrees north of the equator – but the sun was dimmed for about an hour.
🙂 Yesterday, got to help a little with the peanut harvest – just plucking off the peanuts from the stocks (they rake the peanut plants from the field and carry them back to the compounds, where the peanuts are first pulled of the plants and then shelled – all by hand).
😦 The peanut yield is very low this year – damage from a wetter than normal rainy season.
😦 🙂 Crazy day Saturday, having to pick up the cat (got stuck in airport traffic, I guess everyone whose flights were cancelled due to Friday’s shooting were all surging back on Saturday) and then taking a friend to what turned out to be quite a lengthy hospital visit.
😦 On the way back to drop her off (she lives northeast of me), I missed the offramp and we wound up touring some cities near the LA hillsides. It was one of those things where every time I tried to correct my path I was invariably in the wrong lane, forced to turn the wrong direction, missed several on ramp signs. It was like one of those dreams where you just can’t get out of traffic circle.
🙂 The Lord’s Day.
🙂 An extra hour of sleep and the sun was actually up this morning at a much more reasonable hour.
Karen, I’ve not been blocked (to my knowledge) by anyone of fb, but last year I did un-friend someone who just would not stop posting in-your-face political views (with lots of colorful 4-letter words — though he was a professing Christian, go figure — Fox news was his favorite target). During the run-up to the 2012 election, I gave it all a pass. Lots of people rudely misbehave during election season and on fb you just learn to scroll past it all.
But once the election was over — and his side won, mind you — he would not relent, but kept gloating and posting rants & screeds about fox and all republicans in general. Since the election was over, my tolerance level for that simply vanished and in an irritated moment I unfriended him.
I felt a little sheepish later about un-friending him — the other more reasonable option, of course, is just to “hide” someone’s posts from your view — but I didn’t know if he’d notice I had dropped him or not.
Well, I got another friend request from him recently so I approved it. I haven’t noticed any posts of his (though I’m not on fb a lot lately). But other friends of his at the time of the 2012 elections had actually posted direct complaints on his threads, telling him that he needed to tone down his posts so maybe he got the message and is now controlling himself a bit more. If not, I’ll sink him into land of “hidden” posts so at least it’s not in my face. 🙂
🙂 We just got an e-mail from Linda, our DIL that Caden Muller, oldest grandaughter’s son, went forward to trust the Lord this morning. He will be baptised next Sunday. We plan to go to Greensboro.
We are very happy, as you can well imagine.
He has always been spiritually sensitive, as was his mother, Becky from her early childhood.
Becky is the one who has a blog.
Okay, I have to admit that when Emily was out for a bit, I snuck on to her computer, to take a look at Niece’s Facebook page. I just had to laugh to see a post about “diversity”. 🙂
😦 Missed church today (freeway onramp was closed, I got stuck in traffic trying to get to the one on the other side of town) to the point I gave up.
🙂 When I realized I’d be hopelessly late, I just turned around and drove instead to the park on the cliff tops at the ocean. I had my Bible with me, of course, so I spent the morning at a picnic table overlooking the ocean and just “camping” in Romans 8 — what a wonderful chapter that is. It was such a refreshing time, reading slowly and prayerfully, re-reading portions that struck me as “new” in some way — and all interspersed with times of just soaking in God’s wonderful creation.
From the vastness of the ocean stretching out as far as I could see to the tiniest butterflies fluttering around the flowering bushes on the cliffs, moms chasing their giggling toddlers, stray cats waiting for the caretaker who feeds them, the bark of the sea lions on the buoy bobbing in the distance, flocks of crows and/or ravens squawking as they flew from tree to tree … I missed being in church but, overall, it was a needed time for me to pause and reflect, something I am not doing enough of lately.
Wandering Views 
Kid in the “Family Circus” cartoon has a question I need toask TSWITW sometime:
“C’mone sweetie, which “soon” is it ’till we leave? “pretty” or “not too”.
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Cute cartoon, Chas. 🙂
🙂 Hubby’s week off, first of two (with three weekends off, also).
🙂 Start of a new month yesterday. I like beginnings. Always a good time to reevaluate where I’m going, what I’m doing, and renew my energy with a fresh start on old goals or new.
🙂 One of our calendars has a very pretty November page. Actually, the whole calendar, with folk art by Mary Singleton, is lovely. Sixth Arrow and I were admiring the November page when we turned to it yesterday. It has a kitchen scene; an old wood floor with a checkered olive green and beige rug under the heavy wooden table. A mother is standing at the table, rolling out dough, while two little girls are sitting on red stools by a tray of cookies, and a little boy is standing on a chair next to his mother, with his hand in a bowl of dough. 😉 A grandmother is pulling a tray of cookies out of the oven. There’s a rocking chair at one corner of the rug, a butter churn standing in a corner, and lots of beautiful dishes displayed in open cabinetry. I was so inspired by the beauty of the scene, that I have decided to simply do one extra little thing each day this month to beautify one area of our home.
🙂 Excited to share the beautification journey this month with daughters who love beauty.
🙂 Bought a little plaque yesterday with blue flowers painted on it, and the Bible verse “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” (Phil. 4:13) That was my prettying up effort for November 1 😉
🙂 Listening to the sounds of happy children starting their day. Life is good.
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🙂 I survived the first week of homeschooling! We didn’t have the curriculum until late Thursday, so I was just “winging it.” It will be so nice to have a plan to follow beginning Monday!
🙂 All the support I’ve received from others on this blog, especially the prayer support!
🙂 God’s peace regarding my decision to homeschool Becca for a season. I feel like I’m doing exactly what I’m supposed to be doing.
🙂 Being able to afford vision therapy for Becca (it’s not covered by insurance) for her visual processing disorder.
😦 The fact that Becca has a visual processing disorder
🙂 Thanking God the visual processing disorder can be corrected.
🙂 My sister. She’s been super helpful with my foray into homeschooling, even from halfway across the world.
😦 I won’t get to see her until next summer.
🙂 The internet, for making it possible for me to “talk” with my sister almost every day.
🙂 🙂 🙂 Handing the mean attendance lady the withdrawal letter from public school.
🙂 Never again having to prove my kid was sick with a doctor’s note! It’s so freeing!
🙂 Becca already seems happier.
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🙂 Yay for Becca. 🙂
🙂 It’s Saturday — and we get an extra hour of sleep tonight.
🙂 It’s November, fall is the best time of year, although I sometimes fall into a hibernating urge. 6 arrows, I love those folk art calendars, too.
🙂 Got in and out of jury duty in a day.
😦 The cat’s back at the vet — I need to pick her up this morning, had to leave her there overnight since I couldn’t get out of work in time yesterday to pick her up at the end of the day. The vet says the bite/puncture wound on her back near her tail looks like a mating thing. In other words, even though she’s spayed, a male cat may have tried to mount her, she objected and trouble ensued. But the wound was infected, oozing something foul smelling. Ewww.
😦 Stressful day yesterday with the airport shooting and editors who had us all running in crazy-making circles as they criticized us at every step since we weren’t keeping up with the TV news reporting. Oh, sorry, we forgot to summon the company helicopter with our vast numbers of reporters and photographers in the wake of years of repeated staff cuts. Everyone loses their heads on these stories nowadays with the added online pressure to be first.
🙂 I escaped being one of those called in to work the follow-up stories today.
🙂 Despite getting swept into the airport story madness, I finally got that pesky city election story done yesterday. I’ll probably have to work Tuesday (election) night but I may be able to do that from home for a bit of overtime.
😦 I am not spending enough time in Scripture these days.
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Annms, they tend to get happier very quickly. You will still have some hard days, but always remember how your little girl was struggling. It is worth it to have a bad day once in a while.
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🙂 A nice quiet week at home, without going anywhere except one nice walk in the woods.
🙂 I did the math, and in October we walked in four state parks, two of them twice. It’s nice to have a pass and only have to pay once!
🙂 I just ordered a book of photos (100 pages) of our walks in Indiana, from our own neighorhood to multiple state parks. Everything from a ladybug on a leaf to the grandeur of Turkey Run in fall splendor.
🙂 I got a really special deal on the book, 😦 but with shipping and taxes and one extra feature I added, it cost almost double the price of the special deal.
🙂 It still costs less to get books made than to order enlargements, and you don’t have the expense or wall space it takes to frame them.
🙂 The next-to-the-smallest of the five projects I’m working on will pay for the five books (including the anniversary books) I ordered over the last month, and I don’t have any others to do in the near future, so I guess it’s a justifiable “splurge.”
🙂 I’m making good progress on the third of my five projects, and by the end of the day I hope to have only two left (one big and one small).
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🙂 Another beautiful day in the north country
🙂 Got my outside Christmas lights up – though not turned on yet. Bought some more lights and still need to get those up and shining!
😦 Need to get snow/ice tires on tonight – 20cm of snow predicted for tomorrow
😦 Shop needs major tidying in order to get the Jeep in to change the tires
🙂 I get to work with Tim on organizing the shop – me directing, Tim doing the heavy lifting.
🙂 Roasting sunflower seeds – already have over 2 gallons and not even close to done emptying the flower heads.
🙂 Toddler room tomorrow
😦 Rib out this week – so painful – hope I can carry the kidlets around tomorrow.
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Be sure to post photos of the lights when they’re on, Kare — that must be pretty to see a house all lit up out in the middle of a snowy landscape with nothing else around. 🙂
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🙂 Surprise birthday party to a man who has played music for many events with my husband and daughter. I know there will be a lot of fellow musicians that we have not seen for awhile. There will also be a jam. Should be a lot of fun.
😦 Broken toilet. 🙂 Husband who had the part and could fix it ASAP.
😦 Broken faucet with a leak undetected until damage occurred. It did need to be replaced anyway and is small enough to do with out too much trouble. 🙂 Husband who can do it and will.
🙂 🙂 My dad is off his pump for antibiotic and is doing better.
😦 People on fb who twist the truth to make themselves look good at the expense of others. Nothing new, but still sad. Beware what you read. All is not what it seems. That should go without saying, but we need reminding.
😦 People who have gambled all their money away and will spend their last years in poverty. It is so sad to see.
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😦 My niece blocked me on Facebook.
You may remember an incident back in March, when my niece & her mom (my SIL) both unfriended me due my stance on same-sex marriage, even though I had not directly said anything about it. Although no longer Facebook friends, Niece & I still had a couple mutual friends, where we could read each others’ comments if we happen to comment on one of those friend’s posts.
Last night I commented on a post of one of those friends (the one I wrote about on yesterday’s news thread). Niece did, too. I did not address anything to Niece, & my comment was merely musing on a phrase someone else used in a comment. But then Niece’s comments disappeared, & when I checked, I realized she had blocked me.
That made me so sad, disappointed, & hurt. Unfriending wasn’t enough, she had to block me?
But of course, she & her family are very liberal & open-minded, & strongly believe in tolerance & diversity. Well, at least they think they do.
😦 Chrissy taking Peanut’s death very hard.
🙂 Emily found a knight costume at Costco for Forrest, for trick-or-treating. It’s very shiny, & it has a cool sword, which is why he liked it. 🙂
🙂 An extra hour of sleep tonight!
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Being blocked means that it is as if the two of you don’t exist to each other. The kind of funny thing about it is I could see our mutual friend replying to Niece’s comments, but Niece’s comments no longer appeared to me. So from my vantage point, it looked like Mutual Friend had an imaginary friend she was talking to. 🙂
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:-I Extremely busy week. Very busy week ahead.
🙂 Bible study started again. I’m teaching on the second half of the Gospel of Matthew.
😦 My class of elderly women is shrinking to eight. I don’t mind teaching a small class, it just makes me sad they’re getting so old as to fade away.
😦 Book struggles. I need to finish this section tomorrow and I’m now considering drastic action which will require a rewrite of what I’ve done because of massive plot changes, which means a rewrite of the proposal before it can be sent to people waiting for it.
🙂 But I like it and I love the work.
😦 I was so tired from the week I slept in until 9 o’clock this morning. I don’t remember sleeping in that late in years.
🙂 LOTS of wonderful conversation and visits. I particularly enjoyed seeing an old friend for the first time in 16 years. Lots of difficult trials have come to their family and yet she spoke of them without malice or bitterness. It was a lesson to me, personally.
🙂 God is good. I’ve been focusing on his yoke is easy, his burden is light. That’s been very helpful.
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🙂 :_9
I’m up early, but my body doesn’t think so. I’m waiting around for breakfast because I don’t want to wait so long before lunch. I’ll be sitting in SS wanting to get out for lunch.
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I wish my fingers would hit the keys I tell them to.
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😀 Solar eclipse – We didn’t get the full one, as we are several degrees north of the equator – but the sun was dimmed for about an hour.
🙂 Yesterday, got to help a little with the peanut harvest – just plucking off the peanuts from the stocks (they rake the peanut plants from the field and carry them back to the compounds, where the peanuts are first pulled of the plants and then shelled – all by hand).
😦 The peanut yield is very low this year – damage from a wetter than normal rainy season.
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😦 🙂 Crazy day Saturday, having to pick up the cat (got stuck in airport traffic, I guess everyone whose flights were cancelled due to Friday’s shooting were all surging back on Saturday) and then taking a friend to what turned out to be quite a lengthy hospital visit.
😦 On the way back to drop her off (she lives northeast of me), I missed the offramp and we wound up touring some cities near the LA hillsides. It was one of those things where every time I tried to correct my path I was invariably in the wrong lane, forced to turn the wrong direction, missed several on ramp signs. It was like one of those dreams where you just can’t get out of traffic circle.
🙂 The Lord’s Day.
🙂 An extra hour of sleep and the sun was actually up this morning at a much more reasonable hour.
Karen, I’ve not been blocked (to my knowledge) by anyone of fb, but last year I did un-friend someone who just would not stop posting in-your-face political views (with lots of colorful 4-letter words — though he was a professing Christian, go figure — Fox news was his favorite target). During the run-up to the 2012 election, I gave it all a pass. Lots of people rudely misbehave during election season and on fb you just learn to scroll past it all.
But once the election was over — and his side won, mind you — he would not relent, but kept gloating and posting rants & screeds about fox and all republicans in general. Since the election was over, my tolerance level for that simply vanished and in an irritated moment I unfriended him.
I felt a little sheepish later about un-friending him — the other more reasonable option, of course, is just to “hide” someone’s posts from your view — but I didn’t know if he’d notice I had dropped him or not.
Well, I got another friend request from him recently so I approved it. I haven’t noticed any posts of his (though I’m not on fb a lot lately). But other friends of his at the time of the 2012 elections had actually posted direct complaints on his threads, telling him that he needed to tone down his posts so maybe he got the message and is now controlling himself a bit more. If not, I’ll sink him into land of “hidden” posts so at least it’s not in my face. 🙂
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🙂 We just got an e-mail from Linda, our DIL that Caden Muller, oldest grandaughter’s son, went forward to trust the Lord this morning. He will be baptised next Sunday. We plan to go to Greensboro.
We are very happy, as you can well imagine.
He has always been spiritually sensitive, as was his mother, Becky from her early childhood.
Becky is the one who has a blog.
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Lovely news, Chas. Praying for much spiritual growth for Caden.
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Chas – Praising & thanking God with you! How wonderful!
Kathaleena – Amen!
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Okay, I have to admit that when Emily was out for a bit, I snuck on to her computer, to take a look at Niece’s Facebook page. I just had to laugh to see a post about “diversity”. 🙂
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😦 Missed church today (freeway onramp was closed, I got stuck in traffic trying to get to the one on the other side of town) to the point I gave up.
🙂 When I realized I’d be hopelessly late, I just turned around and drove instead to the park on the cliff tops at the ocean. I had my Bible with me, of course, so I spent the morning at a picnic table overlooking the ocean and just “camping” in Romans 8 — what a wonderful chapter that is. It was such a refreshing time, reading slowly and prayerfully, re-reading portions that struck me as “new” in some way — and all interspersed with times of just soaking in God’s wonderful creation.
From the vastness of the ocean stretching out as far as I could see to the tiniest butterflies fluttering around the flowering bushes on the cliffs, moms chasing their giggling toddlers, stray cats waiting for the caretaker who feeds them, the bark of the sea lions on the buoy bobbing in the distance, flocks of crows and/or ravens squawking as they flew from tree to tree … I missed being in church but, overall, it was a needed time for me to pause and reflect, something I am not doing enough of lately.
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:-). All
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LOVE Romans 8! Especially the first verse and the last two. So powerful.
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