107 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 12-15-15”

  5. That Nativity Soet was a gift from Mama Ruth of Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus one year for Christmas. The pharmacy and the Christmas shop in town are owned by the same people. It used to be that you could have a charge account at the pharmacy and pay for all your prescriptions each month. It came in very handy when I was taking fertility drugs and Dr. B would have me fax in my prescription so he could make sure he had it for me by 5:30 or 6 when I got there.
    Anyway, Miss B opened the Christmas store in the late 90’s early 2000’s. After Christmas she had the rest of the Nativity Set on sale for half price. Even with that “bargain” she had to set me up on a separate charge account to pay for my half price Nativity set. I was a stay at home mother at the time and as you know I was married to the Poorest Man in America at the time, so I paid for it 20 dollars a month at no interest.
    As with most things you have, if you check it out on eBay or Amazon it isn’t bringing what your paid for it, but because of who started it and the rest of the story, it is priceless to me. This is why when Mama Ruth died I told her daughters that what I really wanted most was one (or more if they are generous) of the Nativity sets she had.

    Now I am off to the store. The Receptionist at the office has been sick and is feeling better. She “respectfully requested” tomato gravy and rice for lunch….another thing Mama Ruth taught me to cook. Conecuh sausage, tomatoes, onions, and rice. It’s the love that makes it so good. (I don’t put flour in it…that’s the gross kind)

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  6. Musical Advent Calendar – Day 15: The words to this French carol were first published in 1723. Both words and tune are probably older than that.

    Leave, shepherds, leave your peaceful flocks a-grazing!
    No longer grieve, but come, O come away!
    Come and adore, your tears all changed to praising;
    Of Him the heav’nly King, O sing, O sing
    Your Savior born this happy day.

    There, lowly laid, within a manger narrow,
    A lovely maid and Infant thou shalt see!
    His tender love hath sought thee in thy sorrow—
    Thy darkness to remove! He came, to prove
    A loving Shepherd’s care for thee!

    Kings from the east! His star will guide thee truly!
    Where He doth rest, in love and faith draw near:
    Our rising Sun receives thy homage duly!
    O bring to Him, each one—Each one! Each one!
    Your incense and your gold and myrrh!

    Who canst do all things surely, hearts enshrine
    Thine ardors sweet and fair! For peace is his
    For peace is His that through Thee liveth purely!
    And added unto this, all joy, and bliss—
    Since God hath sent His Savior here!

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  7. Morning ya’ll! Seven inches of fresh snow and it is still falling….and it’s cold…feels like 3 below with the windchill…brrrr
    But, the furnace continues to work this AM and we are soooo thankful for a cozy warm home
    That is a lovely nativity Kim…how I remember the day I purchased a nativity from the corner drugstore where I worked when I was 16….my daughter now has that nativity sitting on her fireplace mantle 🙂

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  8. We used to have a nativity scene we placed in the dormer window in Annandale.
    Becky was a little girl then: she was playing with the display. I heard her say, to herself

    “I’ll put baby Jesus in the car seat” (the bed in the manger scene.)

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  9. So my church does a parish dinner during Advent. This Wednesday we will be having an Italian themed meal and all families are invited to bring their Bambinelli to be blessed. I had a concept of what it would be but I couldn’t explain it to all of you. I did a quick search and found this post. Take out the Catholicism and just read about the tradition of it..

    http://www.ncregister.com/blog/sarah-reinhard/a-beautiful-advent-tradition-bambinelli-sunday-blessing-the-christ-child

    I am feeling a little guilty. I treasure the above Nativity set and was going to grab the Bambinelli from another set that I don’t care as much about. It is made of all frosted glass and pieces are missing…I think I have changed my mind on which one to “bless”.

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  10. That is so sweet Chas and someone could preach a sermon on that thought.

    We’ve been making up for lost sleep from yesterday. I was up for a bit around 5 but went back to sleep. The pain med is helping Art to get good rest.

    Yesterday when I bought all the sweets, he had asked me to bring home something sweet that would last longer than for one day’s serving. That was what I did with my birthday goodies in an effort to limit sweets. Well, it is not wise to send a beloved to the store for sweets when they are feeling badly and sympathetic over sufferings from surgery. I could have brought home the whole bakery in an effort to make him feel better. I hope I am making sense. I have not had any coffee.

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  11. I have also given myself an idea. The other day Mr. P and I were in an antique shop and there was a nativity set with missing pieces. I think I will go back and buy it, then I will start looking for others that are also missing pieces….aren’t we all a little like that? We are missing parts of ourselves and we are missing others in our lives…yet Advent fills us with anticipation of the Redemption.

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  12. Car seat, that’s very funny. 🙂

    We made it down into the 30s last night, I was so glad my heater was back on & the house got warmed up before going to bed at least (I always turn the heater off at bedtime, don’t like a warm house to sleep & I have plenty of blankets, comforter, quilt, etc. to keep me warm enough in bed). I also dressed warm — T-shirt under a flannel night shirt under a hooded sweatshirt & sweat pants and wool socks. I could hardly move.

    When I walked the dogs at about 8:30 last night it was also really windy, but the lighted houses all through the neighborhood were so pretty.

    Tess already has lost her Christmas finery from the groomer — one red ear bow was left in the Jeep, one was left in the backyard and her cute red-and-green scarf also was shed in the backyard sometime last night before bedtime. She hates “clothes.”

    Cowboy’s blue bandanna is still on this morning, though. Good dog.

    Today is more house cleaning, sorting & maybe I can get that “healthy” chili made.

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  13. My only Nativity set is a small carved wooden one I bought at a craft fair many years ago. It came from the Holy Land — they had a larger one that I later regretted not getting instead. When I went back to the fair the next year to look for it, the same vendor wasn’t there. And it was before the Internet, so no way to look them up (if I even remembered their name — and I’m pretty sure it’s not stamped on my very small set).

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  15. I have not had all my Christmas things out for several years. I have a really sweet nativity set which is not realistic, but it is a small igloo with an Eskimo looking Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus with a few animals.

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  18. We, too, have Advent Suppers (prior to our Advent services). This year, I’m providing the main dish and others are bring sides and desserts. The first week it was pork and saurkraut, last week was lasagna, and this week is meatloaf, which sounds quite plebeian, except that everyone raves about my meatloaf. Providing for everyone isn’t the big deal it sounds like. We only have 58 adult members and about 75 who worship on Sundays and about 35 who show up for dinner.

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  19. I highly recommend Dutch Country homemade
    Carrot Cake Roll with Cream Cheese Filling that Kroger sells in the bakery refrigerated section. I found it on sale for $2.99 but it regularly sells for $6.99. Great for brunch with coffee.

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  24. No. It’s addicting enough as it is . . .

    For those of you who don’t know me on FB, I just posted this silly slice of life:

    Yesterday I was one of a gazillion people waiting in line the US post office to mail packages. I brought my phone with me to check email, but when I entered–the line was not yet out the door–I decided, instead, to chat with the people in line with me, just like in the old days.

    The woman behind me was sending a letter to her daughter in Switzerland–which is where her husband has a job. A friend of mine told me on Friday her sister-in-law is moving to Switzerland because of a job; I have relatives in Switzerland; I spent a summer there in college and had traveled all over the small mountainous country. We had an animated conversation about Switzerland.

    (When is the last time you had an animated conversation about Switzerland?)

    We then realized the woman ahead of me in line was laughing. She was from Switzerland! Indeed, her relatives lived in the same town as those of the woman behind me!

    So, we talked about family, chocolate, Alps, cheese and had a splendid time–the half an hour we stood together in line!

    Maybe we should all practice conversation with strangers this Christmas season?

    If you need an opening, mention Switzerland . . .

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  29. Michelle, When we were first married, we found a large coffee table book of photos of the Alps. It’s a great book for those who appreciate fine photography. I thought my husband always wanted to see the Alps in person.

    My son has a friend who has spent time there at L’abri (sp?).

    Other than that, Swiss Miss makes good hot chocolate. Continuing the conversation…

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  31. My family likes my mealoaf. The secret, I think, is to make it moist enough. I use spaghetti sauce for the liquid, & oatmeal instead of bread crumbs. This is based on my mom’s recipe (which called for French dressing instead of the sauce), but I don’t know where she got it.

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  32. Good idea, talking to people in long lines rather than looking at the phone. Short lines, I still look at my phone — but it’s fun (well, depending on my mood, I guess) to strike up conversations with strangers. Although a woman at the supermarket the other day piped up criticizing the cost of some produce I was buying. Then she touched it (she also was eating out of the vegan bag of cheese she was buying already opened). So there you go.

    OK, everything chopped for the slow-cooker chili, will try to get that going in another hour or so for dinner tonight … and tomorrow night and the night after and the night after that …

    Meanwhile, it’s back to the clothes sorting.

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  34. I got in trouble in Germany for touching the fruit in a fruit store. You are supposed to tell the person what you want and she gets it for you. I learned this because they put up a sign in English and I was the only English speaker around.

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  37. Fourteen year old daughter has been struggling. She has been very unpleasant to the family, ignoring all but me, and yelling at me. We made her stay home from school yesterday because she was ill. She wailed that she was going to get an “F” even though I explained that excused absences were allowed. She wrote a page of how her life would be better. One included doing extra schoolwork at home so I gave her the math book she was working on last year before opting for public school. It is eighth grade with decimals and fractions and GCF and LCM and all of that. She is loving in. In Public School, she brought home a math page that had her do last week and the most difficult thing was 10 x 5. No wonder she was so frustrated. They have her doing third and fourth grade work and she is forgetting what she had learned. But she got to socialize and learn to tell her mom, “none of your beeswax”.

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  39. Donna, no, you did not. You did mention it was in the 30’s but since it was supposed to get up into the 30’s here today, I thought that sounded fairly comfortable. I did not realize it also was cold there. I hope you were able to put on your parka and sweatshirt and rabbit fur hat and mukluks and big thick leather mittens.

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  40. Miss Bosley is grounded. She bit Art. I am in a horrible mood. She is jumping at the door know trying to get out of this room. I am really struggling because Art sometimes uses curse words and finally I am at the stage of loudly (yelling) them back at him because I have not found anything else to get his attention about how much I hate them. I feel like I am at the stage of if you can’t win then join them. It is so un Christian of me. I feel badly about myself. He has played so rough with Bosley that it isn’t her fault that she is a bite and scratchy cat. Early on I said I did not want a bite scratchy cat but Art would not pay attention. Now he got bit and cursed about it which made me curse back. Please, Lord, help me in whatever way You know is needed. And help Art to get rid of his continuing hiccups. Not sure what is worse, cursing or nonstop hiccups.

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  41. I’m so sorry, Janice. You’ve been under tremendous strain lately — you and Art both — and I know for me, the curse words come much too easily to my lips when I’m under tension. (Which, truthfully, has been a lot lately, though I’ve not experienced any recent stressors that have been anywhere near what you’ve been dealing with.)

    Have a good cry, friend. The Lord loves you, and we do too {{{Janice}}}. ❤

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  42. Sometimes a well placed curse word can make you feel better.
    The funniest thing I heard was someone dropped the f word. His mother without batting a lash shot back for him to watch his f’ing mouth. He was so stunned his mother said it that he stopped. Obviously MY OWN personal child would take that as permission to continue. “Well YOU said it”

    Janice, can you take yourself for a nice walk around the block? Sometimes when I am really stressed, (and how can you not be? ) I do that and it really helps.

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  43. Oh, so sorry Janice, you’re not having a good day (or month!). 😦 😦 You’ve shown a lot of grace through it all. It’s natural to “blow” now and again.

    And it’s true, cats have very quick and sensitive trigger points physically that bring our their killer instincts. We’ve all been victims. I’m pretty circumspect with Annie but every now and again I touch her wrong and SLASH.

    Oh good, I’m finally learning how to translate “mumsee.”

    My chili is cooking (7 more hours on low), but the recipe was a little overwhelming for my smallish (4 qt) slow-cooker.

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  45. Thanks, for listening to my crumbles, stumbles, and grumbles.

    The catheter tubing just came apart and spilled onto the carpet. But at least the hiccups stopped. 🙂

    I told Art things would go better for him if he would honor God. I know, not the right time to say anything.

    At least I bought him two robes so we were ready.

    I am not saying the curse words to release anger or frustration, but as the only way I know to maybe reach Art since it is his language. When in Rome, etc. I am using it at him which is wrong and a sin I am sure. He is releasing anger when he curses. If I curse, it does nothing to help my frustration and only makes me hate myself. My brother does not curse either. I don’t think son curses much if any either. I want to be loving and kind, especially as Art recouperates, but I am love challenged by this all.

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  46. I really don’t think there’s anything special about my meatloaf. I use regular ground beef (not the leanest, not the fattiest). I add an egg, “some” Worcestershire Sauce, “some” corn flake crumbs, salt and pepper, and a little shredded or dried onion (sorry, Chas). It is served with a sauce that came from my DIL’s family (1/2 c. brown sugar, 3/4 c. catsup, 2 tbsp. vinegar, 2 tsp. prepared mustard, mix in saucepan, bring to boil, reduce and simmer for 3 minutes) and sauteed mushrooms (saute in butter and garlic, add some Taylor’s Port wine, and reduce). That’s it, but it seems like folks love it.

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  47. Ok Janice…I am so bad but I kinda had a laugh at the visual of Art hiccuping and cursing at the same time….I told you I was bad 😛 It will get better….s….tuff happens and we just have to roll with it….I,like Kim, find taking a walk helps relieve stress built up inside….I get away alone with my thoughts, hurts, frustrations and well…I’m not really alone…the Lord is with me all the while…He sees me….He knows me better than anyone ever could….and despite me being me….He loves me…remember that 🙂 oh yeah…like 6 said….we love you too!!

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  48. I just did something I never did before. I cut the grass again. In the middle of December. All the rain and warm weather made the grass grow too high. first time ever..
    I had already put the lawn mower away for the winter.
    I almost did something very stupid. And it would have been embarrassing beyond description.
    After refueling the mower, I tried to crank it. It wouldn’t budge. I looked at all the potential problems. Tried again.
    It wouldn’t start.
    I fortunately, Elvera wasn’t here to help me load the mower into the truck. I would have taken it to the shop.

    This mower is self propelled. It has two leavers, one to run, one to engage the front wheels.

    I went back after a while, for one more try. I pulled on the top0 lever. It cranked right up!

    Imagine how embarrassing it would have been to let the guy at the shop do that.

    😳

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  50. Y’all brought tears with your kind expressions and laughs, too!

    I am better, lifted by prayers no doubt. And Art went to sleep, Bosley was elsewhere asleep, and I put on a CD, O Holy Night, Best of Candlelight Carols 2004-2009 that I got through Moody. Then I washed dishes. I hoped Art would hear the nice music and let it calm his soul, too. I tried playing it when my brother was here working on the plumbing and he told me I could turn it off. He has a narrow range to music he likes. Art has a wide margin as does son.

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  51. I own a book entitled The Gift of Music: Great Composers and Their Influence, by Jane Stuart Smith and Betty Carlson. The authors spent time at Francis and Edith Schaeffer’s L’Abri Fellowship in Switzerland, and Francis Schaeffer wrote the foreword to the book.

    That’s my only connection to Switzerland, as far as I know. 🙂

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  57. Here you go Janice. Three hours of healing meditation and relaxation music. This company even had 8 hours of sleep music available on Youtube.

    Check it out and see …It is sort of Spa Relaxation music. I think I would listen to it very low, like they play it in spas.

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  58. Janice, my husband has a very narrow range of music he likes, too. And it’s not classical. 😉 The CD player gets shut off when he’s in the house (which isn’t often).

    I try to do my piano practicing when he’s not home, because he doesn’t much care for the sound of the piano. It is rather loud, even when I attempt to play quietly. It’s got a much brighter tone than most pianos I’ve played on, and combined with the fact it’s in our living room, which has wood flooring instead of carpet, there’s hardly any dampening of the sound, although we have a small rug under the piano, and a piece of cardboard between the back of it (it’s an upright, not a grand piano) and the wall it’s against.

    Sixth Arrow was playing piano the other day when we were getting ready to have a meal, and my husband said, “I didn’t know she could play piano,” and I told him that, yeah, I’ve been teaching her since around the time of her most recent birthday (a few months ago).

    Where have *you* been? 😉 (OK, I didn’t say THAT!) 🙂

    He did seem to enjoy 6th Arrow’s playing, though, so that was nice. 🙂

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  59. Let’s see BG likes garbage for music.
    I like anything from the 1950’s Rockabilly/County/Pop through 90’s Grunge. The only station we can both listen to is TK101 out of Pensacola. I tell her all the time I can write RapCrap.
    “Cat, that, sat, hat bat b*^%h, ho”

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  63. Janice, the reason I chose the music I did is it has a steady vibration under the other notes. 6 and Michelle can probably explain that better. Sound has healing properties. ( I have been editing Lisa’s paper)

    http://spiritualityhealth.com/articles/science-behind-healing-sound

    http://www.positivehealth.com/article/sound-and-music/the-healing-power-of-sound

    I went and took a class with Lisa that was a restorative healing class. They used sound in some of the stretches and movements we did.

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  66. Got a small table moved out of the bedroom (going to put it in the living room and move the little stand that’s there into the bedroom). Hauled some trash out. I’m tired, though I should try to do more. But I wanted to get the dogs to the dog park today — although it will be frightfully cold there — and the sun goes down soon. Chili won’t be ready until 8 p.m. so late dinner for me tonight.

    I hate the hiccups, I don’t get them often but they’re very annoying. And it’s hard to take anyone too seriously when they have them, even when they’re grumpy and mad. 🙂

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  69. Art seems to be enjoying the music.

    I am cooking salmon patties. Miss Bosley enjoys the juice out of the can. She seems content now.

    Art is having big pain. He seems to have traded the hiccups for the pain. As soon as his pain med wears off he has big hurting from the new stent.

    Once when I met one of son’s guy friends at Covenant, the young man who I believe was majoring in music (worship oriented) told me how much he appreciated our son’s wide range of musical taste. I do miss hearing him play clarinet as he did in high school.

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  70. Art never has hiccups. I tend to be the one who gets them, so I am not use to hearing him have them. I totally was not expecting that on top of everything else. The kidney stent causes spasms so it is probably related to that. I don’t remember son having hiccups except for in the womb and as an infant.

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  72. Interesting articles, Kim. I’m not an authority on sound and its effects on the body, but the main thing, which I know you know, is that we recognize Who is the Great Healer, of soul and body. Sound, music, anything and everything in life will have effects according to the Lord’s divine will.

    My own experience has been that making music helps lift my moods when I am feeling down. Listening, to a smaller extent, helps me, too. (Certain kinds of music, not all.)

    It was interesting, the article talking about sound waves, and how a certain sustained pitch, held by an opera singer with ever-increasing volume, would shatter glass after a certain point. I’d heard of that before, but it made me think of an experience I once had with a sudden, loud sound, and how it affected me.

    I had walked out of a room in my house several years ago, into the hallway, just as my oldest daughter, probably a teenager at that time, stepped into that part of the hallway from somewhere else. Neither of us had known the other was there, and suddenly we were face to face, going opposite directions, and almost crashed into each other.

    Daughter spooks easily, and she emitted a high-pitched scream right in front of me. I very literally felt the vibration in my chest. It hurt.

    And then made me feel angry, at what I thought was her lack of self-control. 😦 Which isn’t fair, because, truthfully, I sometimes get jumpy at sudden, unexpected occurrences , too — I just don’t scream in response.

    (Sometimes I curse, though, and here we go, back to that discussion!)

    Anyway, I had never experienced anything like that time the scream was right in front of me (and my daughter is several inches shorter than I am, so the scream came out literally inches away from my chest, in a direct hit, so to speak).

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  73. Well, speaking of sound and music, my Tuesday piano student will be here in a half an hour, so it’s time for me to get ready for that.

    Last week of lessons for the year, then off Christmas and New Year’s weeks, and back at it January 5.

    Can’t believe we’re almost to a new year!

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  74. Married to Mr. Respiratory Therapist Here. He always tell me to control and be intentional with my breathing to make them stop.
    I LOVE salmon patties but no one in my life will eat them with me. 😦

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  76. I would leave the onions out if someone would just eat them with me.
    I like them with LeSuer English Peas and Heinz 57 sauce. Yum, yum. I think we may also have had beets with them when I was growing up. I haven’t made them in a long time. My guestimates are off because they have tapered the can and you don’t get as much salmon.

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  79. Salmon patties were great! I got Art to eat one. He has little appetite. Hiccups have returned and it is difficult to get food down when you have the hiccups. Maybe at.the catheter removal tomorrow I can ask for removal of the hiccups.

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  80. I kind of feel sorry for those who have a limited range of music preferences. There are so many styles out there that sound similar, how can people limit themselves to one or two kinds? My list of likes is so long I have a dozen or more Pandora channels. Actually, there are only a few styles I don’t like.

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  81. Salmon patties are good.

    I also have a pretty broad range of music preferences. Depends on my mood.

    Chili I’m making has lots of onions & garlic and “heart-healthy” vegetables. I’ll wind up with a lot of it though, so let’s hope I don’t get totally sick of it. Will have to freeze it in portions.

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  84. Ask him a random question I had them once when I ran into a friend in a parking lot. We were talking about some upcoming event and from way out in left field he asked me in a really excited voice when wa the last time I saw a giant white rabbit walking across a field. I mean a big one on two legs with a suit and bow tie with a fedora. I looked around –no rabbit. Ithis went on for a minute or two. I looked at him like he was crazy. What was THAT all about? H the pointed out me hiccups were gone. Kim

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  85. Swallowing a teaspoon of peanut butter without drinking anything usually takes away my hiccups within a minute.

    But maybe you should ask a healthcare practitioner for advice. I googled “hiccups after surgery,” and while I didn’t read any of the articles, from scanning the first page that came up, it looks like hiccups after surgery might be fairly common? Not sure if remedies for hiccups should be different after surgeries or other medical procedures than what can safely be done for garden-variety hiccups?

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  86. Kim, the best one I ever heard wasn’t regarding hiccups, but a police officer at an accident scene. He was as obnoxious as can be, but after the man was in the hospital recovering he stopped in to see him and apologized for his bad behavior at the scene . . . but explained that he could see he was “losing” the man, and the only way he could think of to get his blood pressure elevated enough to keep him alive until the ambulance arrived was to get him a little mad. So he chose being obnoxious to keep the man focused and alive.

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  87. Early rant for Rants & Raves: people who get all bent out of shape about Christians celebrating Christmas. Sheesh. I got caught in the crosshairs of one at a friend’s blog, and, boy, I think I have steam burns from the steam coming out of the woman’s ears.

    After a couple responses on my part (two too many, I now realize), I walked away. Unfortunately, I told her I was bowing out of the conversation (another mistake — I should have just bailed without a word), and she ripped apart just about everything I had said, a lot of things I didn’t say, and, in a display of utter omniscience, declared she knew the real reason I was walking away, and that I was lying about it.

    Oh…kay.

    It would be kind of amusing, if she weren’t so hard-nosed and utterly lacking in grace and peace.

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  88. We have a PA who recommends taking a 4×4 gauze and pulling on the tongue, applying tension for 5 min. Claims it never fails to take them away. The docs often use valium in the ED.

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  89. Meatloaf is a fav of mine. We use dried oats too, instead of bread crumbs.

    But I never put tomato sauce/ketchup on it, although I do put a little ketchup in it. Brown gravy is the way to go. 🙂

    And mashed potatoes and corn. Mmmmmmmmmmm. 🙂

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  90. Salmon patties are gross, as is smoked salmon. 😦

    But I did make bourbon/brown sugar marinated salmon fillets for dinner with a salad, and they were really good. 🙂

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  91. Food and hiccup remedies. Only on WV.

    I like meatloaf. Mrs L doesn’t, so we never have it here. But she made salmon loaf in the past that was good. Hmm. Now that D3 is moving away, maybe I can get Mrs L to make it again.

    And that means one week from today we’ll be empty nesters. I don’t know whether to be sad or happy.

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  99. A secret Santa who knows us well would not have left a wooden bowl filled with a package of muffins with label removed, a ring of apples and oranges wire a small airplane size bottle of bourbon in the middle of it all. God knows who is doing this.

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  104. I am up…have been since 4….a certain puppy likes to be an early riser at times and today was once of those days….perhaps she knows today she is going to visit Dr Cor….and he is going to give her another puppy shot!!? 🙂
    Furnace continues to work…they had to push out the install of our new one to Monday due to the snow we got yesterday….thankful for heat….we didn’t get above 13 yesterday…and the windchill was 5 below due to the awful winds here in the forest…. brrrrr
    It is still dark outside, Lulah is chewing on something and I need one more cup of coffee! 🙂

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  105. Somebody, probably in your neighborhood, cares about you and knows you are having trying times. They are reaching out in the way they know best. Congratulations on having caring neighbors, Janice!

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  106. I have not even finished yesterday’s comments (except for the prayer thread), but I want to jump in here with a question from a friend.

    My friend Renee, an older woman, & a devout Catholic who also has a love for, & relationship with, Jesus, has told me she has trouble understanding the Bible (& that she’s only allowed to read a Catholic Bible). She has enjoyed the scripture verses I’ve been sharing on Facebook, but she has trouble understanding what they are all about. I offered to answer any question she has, to the best of my ability) which pleased her.

    Her first question comes not from anything I’ve shared, but from something that has bothered her for years: What is the unforgivable sin, & what does “blasphemy of the Holy Spirit” really mean? She said that in her 20s she was convinced that she had committed it, felt sick about it, & started drinking heavily.

    First off, I explained that if she is worried that she’s committed it, then she hasn’t. I explained as best I could, but it is a tough question. & I’ve never heard a fully satisfactory answer myself. Some say that “blasphemy of the Holy Spirit” is “attributing an act of the Spirit to the devil or demons”, but I’ve heard of people doing that in their ignorance, then changing their minds.

    I think that maybe it is mostly an outright, soul-deep rejection of the work of the Holy Spirit, along with a verbal proclamation of some sort (because blasphemy is a verbal act, isn’t it?). But again, as I’ve heard it explained, it is the sort of thing that one would not feel any guilt about, & if someone wonders if he’s committed it, most probably he has not. It is the Holy Spirit working in us that allows us to believe in Jesus, so if He had left a person, he/she wouldn’t believe, & wouldn’t care.

    So. . .I’m wondering how some of you would answer those questions.

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