34 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 12-1-17”

  4. The internet at the hotel is slooooow. So I ca’t update the header. So you will have to deal with the squirrel for a couple days until we return from VA. See ya’s.

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  10. Happy Birthday to Cheryl’s Beloved!

    I feel bad about something I wrote the other night. In a comment to Roscuro, I mentioned, in what some might have considered a negative way, how some people have tried to comfort me by reminding me that I will see Hubby is Heaven. I commented that I knew that, & it is a comfort, but that thought doesn’t really help right now.

    Later, it occurred to me that some of you here may have said that to me, too, & I felt so bad for what I wrote. Please know that if you did say that (about Hubby being in Heaven), I was not offended nor angry about it – I took it in the spirit in which it was meant. My point to Roscuro was just that – taking things in the spirit in which they are intended.

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  11. The first Advent post may be seen here: https://travellerunknownblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/01/advent-season-december-1st-2017/

    Yes, I’m shamelessly plugging for my own blog (which has been lying completely dormant for over a year). Actually, the post content is exactly the kind of thing I wanted my blog to be about, and last year Michelle suggested that I blog my Advent entries, so I’m giving it a try. This year, I will drawing mostly from the music I already have compiled over the last three years.

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  13. If pin oak leaves were white, I would think it’ snowing.

    Re peter’s 9:02. Some of those cartoons are really good this time. But I kept going until I recognized some from last time. I thought it unusual that there were so manu.
    Until I realized that I wasn’t here last week. I was thinking, “What’s this thanking veteran about?”

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  15. I saw that snow and turned on my heater. Actually, it was a bit cold in the house this morning, in the 50s. OK, that’s cold ‘for us.’ I just have to remember to flip the heater off fairly quickly as the gas bills can be horrendous otherwise. 😦

    Heading out to the craft fair today then picking up my Jeep at the end of the day, hopefully. The kitchen sink appears leak-free, yay. And he took out the old garbage disposal so I now have a lot more room under that sink. Everything’s still pulled out onto the kitchen floor, so I need to take care of putting it all back in some kind of order this weekend.

    Tomorrow’s hectic, I’ll have to pick up meds for the dogs, make a baked spaghetti casserole to take to church Sunday and then pick up a couple women on the way to the church Christmas party tonight. After I drop them off afterward, I may need to swing by the dog park Christmas party to get the guy paid the rest of what I owe him for the sink job. He likes ‘cash only’ so paying him requires some planning & a trip to the ATM on my part. Wish he’d just take a check, it would be SO much quicker and easier.

    I think I’ve found my Angel Tree gifts online, though, so I can get those ordered quickly and wrapped, I believe they’re due back at the church by next Sunday.

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  21. Kizzie, in my opinion, widows are allowed up to a year to say anything without anyone taking offense.
    BTW, I don’t this I shared this with you.

    Don’t grieve for me, for now I’m free,
    I’m following the path God laid for me.
    I took his hand when I heard his call,
    I turned my back and left it all.

    I could not stay another day,
    To laugh, to love, to work, to play.
    Tasks left undone must stay that way,
    I’ve found that peace at the close of the day.

    If my parting has left a void,
    Then fill it with remembered joy.
    A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss,
    Ah yes, these things I too will miss.

    Be not burdened with times of sorrow,
    I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.
    My Life’s been full, I savoured much,
    Good friends, good times, a loved one’s touch,

    Perhaps my time seemed all too brief,
    Don’t lengthen it now with undue grief.
    Lift up your heart and share with me,
    God wanted me now, He set me free.

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  22. Kizzie, my mom commented once that people would say, “You’ll see him in heaven” and her response (whether she’d say it or just think it, I don’t know) would be, “Yes, but he won’t be my husband then! I miss my husband now.”

    She had three of us under 17, living in a lonely community she never liked (nor did I), and where she moved just for her husband’s sake. She came to me once and said, “They say not to make major changes the first year, but I’ve never liked living here, and we were looking to move before he died. Do you think it would make sense to go ahead and move?” And I said yes, it did, and we did. But those kinds of decisions and that kind of work was hard without a husband to help her do it.

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  24. Kim – This line – “Tasks left undone must stay that way. . .” – is so true for us. Hubby had a long list of things that he just never got around to, some of them quite important things, or things that will be more difficult for us than they would have been for him. But considering what a hard worker he was, & the number of hours each worked each day & each week, I just can’t begrudge him the time he spent trying to relax a bit rather than getting to those things.

    (Okay, maybe there are a couple things I’m not happy he didn’t get to.)

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  25. How can I complain again about not being able to get Art’s medicine? One of the two doctors called in his medicine. Again we wait and wonder on the other. It takes so much effort to do the little things. When I went to Sam’s to get office supplies and a lot of items for the VA nursing home project, they only had two long backed up lines snaking to open registers. Two? In the month of Christmas consumerism? The guy behind me left after voicing his thoughts to me about how stupid it is to run a million dollar business that way. And my water was cut off for the second time in two days…at least I did not have a head full of shampoo or a load in the washer. There are always so many hindrances to slow people down.

    Ha! Considering hindrances, at least we have speed bumps on our street to slow down the many passing by (right now) on our cut through. Pity any of us who live here and try to make it out of our driveway. The other day I was in the long line of rush hour cars on my street and they would not let the mail truck get around a parked car on the other side of the street. I pulled over to let the mail truck by, but the cars behind me passed me and still did not let the mail truck through. So, I jumped back in and stopped in the middle of the road so no one could pass me and I could let the mail truck pass. Then I slowly made my way to my driveway. Thank goodness the street is quiet except at crazy rush hour.

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  26. Had a fender bender this morning in that same new car– fender crease, really, her car. Mine is fine. Got home, talked to insurance company and then my husband told me one of the elders died last night.

    I have no problems.

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  29. FYI, I started the Metaxas biography of Luther on Reformation Day, read a chapter here and there, and finished it in a month, the last day of November. Usually it doesn’t take me that long to get through a book unless it’s a really tough read (it wasn’t), but in that one I learned a lot and simply savored the book. Well worth reading. It’s not a quick read at any rate, but it’s meaty and good.

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  30. Fun day at the craft fair and kind of nice having my friend drive for a change (though I wanted to use the passenger side brake a few times!).

    I paid for parking (she usually does when I drive) and she was gracious enough to take me to the auto shop before they closed so I could pick my Jeep up.

    AND the final bill was shaved significantly, thanks to the shop finding a radiator that was $200 less than the first one they originally estimated having to procure — & my friend, a retired AAA employee, pointing out that since they were a AAA approved shop, I should get a discount (since I’m a Triple A member of many years). So cute, she came into the shop with me to insist that I be given the discount (that I’d failed to ask for). 🙂 I would have been embarrassed in earlier years, but not now.

    That was another $50 shaved off the bill.

    Yay.

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  31. For me, the real comfort is knowing a loved one IS in heaven. I’ve experienced deaths where I’m really not sure and that is hard. 😦 So much easier when the signs were all there that they’re “ok.”

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