A normal day under God's sun.

It is a little harder for me to type as I seem to have some discomfort in the knuckles on my right hand.  I don't know if arthritis is settling in with the change in the weather or if I have simply whacked my hand.  This is also the hand that belongs to the arm that carries some plates, pins and screws of a little misadventure in 2009.

  I was in a new store that just opened up. I found potatoes on sale for $1.00 per 10 lb sack.  There was a limit of two bags per customer.  I think that tomorrow I will go back and get a couple bags for the church pantry.  Other than that, the day just flowed along and I flowed with it.

I came home and fell asleep on the couch, sitting upright.  Even 'though I went to bed "early" I am tired.  I was trying to read and couldn't keep my eyes open.  It is a sure sign that I am "over the hill" as my mother was the same way, often falling asleep with a book in her hand.

That reminds me to mention that I went to the library yesterday and picked up a couple of books.  One is about historical fantasy, HUNTING THE GHOST DANCER AND the other is about G. K. CHESTERSON-THE APOSTLE OF COMMON SENSE.   The fiction fantasy is all about the mingling of pre-history, archeology, anthropology, adventure, and all of that genre'.  The book about G. K. Chesterson is not fiction, but the meaningful and enlightening look at the inner man and his insights of the spiritual person.  I think I like his writings a whole lot better than the book SEVEN STORY MOUNTAIN which was so widely proclaimed back in the '60's and 70's.  So...which book do you think I started to read first?   Um, remember...I have a simple mind!

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WHAT WANDERER

HAVE I SEEN

WITHOUT CLOTHING

OR POOR MAN

WITHOUT COVERING;

WHOSE LIMBS

HAVE NOT BLESSED ME

WHEN WARMED

WITH THE FLEECE

OF MY SHEEP?

 

Job 31: 19-20

 

I know that everyone is thinking about the victims of Hurricane Sandy and the Nor'easter that tagged along for the ride, and that is as it should be.  But don't forget about your own neighbors who may also be cold, hungry or without shelter.  If you can give, do so.  If you can help them out, well and good, but perhaps if all you can offer are your prayers; that is a rich gift that can not be measured. 

 

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A Day Gone Bye-By

I'm cold and tired.  I feel bad for everyone on the east coast that is more tired and more cold then me.  I am tired because I went to bed around 1:30 A. M.  I am cold because I turned the heat way down when I went out this morning.  Both my dumb actions.  The weather man said it would be nice today and it was,  some of the day and the sun was shining, but cold.  I stayed up watching a TV show which I seldom do, but was looking for something other than political ads.  Both actions could have been better decided my part.  Dumb me.

To start the day out...someone was knocking on my door at 8:30 and woke me out of a sound sleep.  I had intended to sleep late and then go to 12:05 mass.  Well, by the time I got to the door whoever was there evaporated like the dew on the grass.  Gone.  So...I was up for the day and not in my prime, but in my sweat cloths.  I am glad that the door knocker person was gone because I was no raving beauty to go and  answer the door. Ugh.

I got to the bank today and then went to the Ruler Store for milk and bread.  I guess everyone had the same thing in mind and it was an ordeal.  The checkout lines were backed up to the back of the store.  After all, where else can you get milk for .99 cents a gallon and bread for .39 cents a loaf.  Yes, there were people stocking up.  Again carts were filled with several gallons on milk and one cart had about 50 lbs of potatoes in it.  One lady had two carts again.  I guess you have to save whenever you can.  Standing in long lines isn't a fun way to while away the afternoon, but I will say that everyone was polite and patient.  That's Kentucky for you: old fashioned manners and grace deeply inbedded.

So, now you know how I spent most of this day and will probably do it all over again tomorrow.  I will be going to a different store 'though, to get goodies for the residents at the nursing home.  Then I quite.

Gas was $3.11 yesterday.  Today it was bumped up to about $344-49.  I expected that to happen after the elections were over and now the big oil companies can get back to business as usual.  Is it any wonder that people are trying to save wherever they can?

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I AM THE BREAD

OF LIFE.

YOUR FATHERS

ATE THE MANNA

IN THE DESERT

AND HAVE DIED.

THIS THE BREAD

THAT COMES

DOWN

HEAVEN

SO THAT IF

ANYONE

EAT OF IT

HE WILL NOT

DIE.

 

John 6: 48-50

 

I sometimes take the reading of the day for  this post, but usually find something that relates to my thoughts and actions of the day.  I share as much of myself as I can.  Maybe that isn't always good, but really...no one has to read these postings, but I am glad that you do.

 

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PEOPLE OF THE EARTH, THAT WE ARE

The day started out sunny, but became gray, rainy and cold.  When I went into church is was nice out, but when I came out it had become chilly and windy.  Well, I guess I should have worn a jacket!

There isn't much going on so there isn't much to post.  I had intended to go shopping for milk and bread and a couple other items, but came home to warmth and comfort instead.  Boy, am I a wimp!

This is pretty much how it will be now that the weather has turned colder.  BTW, the weather man said that we have had 13 days of below normal temperatures.  What happened to global warming?  Actually, it is supposed to get nicer for a few days and I am ready for sunshine, but not hot days.  Some of us just can't be pleased!

THE LORD

FROM THE EARTH

CREATED MAN,

IN HIS OWN IMAGE

HE MADE HIM.

LIMITED DAYS

OF LIFE HE GIVES

HIM

AND MAKES HIM

RETURN TO THE

EARTH AGAIN.

 

Sirach 17: vs.1-2

 

I'll bet you didn't know that you were made out of plain old dirt.  Well, call yourself a Mud Man, Mud Woman, Muddy Child or what ever.  You are the stuff of the universe, so simple, yet so complex.  You were made by God for God.  You are composed of the stuff of stars, fire and earth, by the will of God for His own purpose.  Ch. 17 is something of a recipe of all the ingredients that God whipped up and endowed us, His creations, with; a mud cake that only He could bake.  Such a puzzlement we are to one another, but so elegant in design and love, and to be loved.   Please read some of Ch. 17 of Sirach.  You might like knowing just how unique, rare, and valuable you actually are to the God who made you...all of us, from the elements of earth that He also created in the infinite span of time.

 

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Blessings

I just cut my hair.  I am trying to save money.  More of my nickles and dimes are going out than are coming in.  Anyway, it didn't turn out too bad considering I can't get my right arm up and over in order to trim the back on the right side.   I have had worse looking cuts where I really got carried away.  So my hair is acceptable, a bit gray, but OK, and I saved $22.00.  I think that I and all that read this post will probably need to save every Penney in the future.

The elections are over and we are in for some fun times.  I read that the people overseas really wanted Obama to win four more years in the White House.   Hmm.  Well, I will say that he is a decent kind of family man.

At this point, however, I urge everyone that can, to stock up on essentials;  You need four things to sustain you.  Shelter, food, water, and clothing.  Of course, you could do like Adam and Eve and go natural, but I don't really think that would be all that comfortable if wind, rain or snow were to blow your fig leaves away. 

One item that you would need that does not come in a can, box or grow on trees, is faith.  Faith is the most important essential ingredient for any kind of survival and it is the one commodity that you can't buy.  If you have faith, nourish it well and it will carry you through all the bad times and all the good days ahead.

I did get a couple things done today, but I am not quite finished.  I also need to clean up the hair on the floor.  I put papers down to catch my 'curly' locks, but some always escape me.  As I paid too much attention to the election results and it takes me a long time to cut my hair with one good working arm, I now need to get busy and take care of things.  My right arm does work, you know.  It finds the way for the fork and spoon...just right; too much higher than my open mouth is frosting on the cake...sort of.  So it goes!

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THE LORD BLESS YOU

AND KEEP YOU.

THE LORD MAKES

HIS FACE

SHINE UPON YOU;

AND BE GRACIOUS

UNTO YOU.

THE LORD LIFT UP

HIS COUNTENANCE

UPON YOU

AND GIVE YOU PEACE.

 

 

Numbers 6: 24-26

 

This just a very slight change in translation, from the thee and thous.  It is a very beautiful blessing. God said to Moses to  tell to Aron and his sons, that they invoke His name to the Israelites.  Amen, it is a blessing that we can give as well.

 

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BREAD OF LIFE

Well, I'm tired and I haven't done a thing.  I think it is because of the time change, getting up in the dark and a cold, rainy day without sunshine.  I like sunshine.

So I became a house plant today, doing just a few odd tasks around the house, falling asleep on the couch, yawning and watching some TV.  I think it was the TV that put me to sleep!

I got some bacon out of the freezer and made a BLT for my supper.  I haven't had one for a while and it was good for a change.  For those readers that are not familiar with a BLT, it is a bacon, lettuce, tomato sandwich, usually on toast.

There isn't very much to post so this is a short one.  That is what happens on a Monday.  Tomorrow will be a little more active as I need to go out and do some things.

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BLESSED IS THE MAN

THAT ENDURES

TEMPTATION:

FOR WHEN HE

IS TRIED

HE SHALL RECEIVE

THE CROWN OF LIFE,

WHICH THE LORD

HAS PROMISED

TO THEM THAT

LOVE HIM.

 

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James 1: 12

 

You know a little temptation is like homemade bread; It keeps rising and rising.  Every time you punch it down it rises up again.  It is hard to check temptation at the door and leave it in stasis.  It keeps popping up again and again.  For most of us-I hope-we can usually bake our bread without burning it.  Sometimes though, the bread comes out slightly burned or even badly burned.  A good cook will carefully watch what is cooking so that the food doesn't get ruined.  It is that way with temptation and we need to keep a close check on ourselves.  Almost everything can become a temptation right down to smallest slice of bread.  If our neighbor has bread and things are tough we might be tempted to take it.  Temptations can be, and often are small, but may become the log in our eye.  I think it is also called "coveting"  and being compelled to desire or take what is not ours to have.  In this modern worldly culture, we just have to wrestle with and endure temptations that assail us from everywhere.

 

P. S.  Tomorrow one is expected to get out and vote.  No one can tell you who to vote for.  For me it is simple: Vote for Life.

 

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LIVE TO LOVE...LOVE TO LIVE IN CHRIST

Ahh, the plot thickens...or the pot thickens.  Or maybe I should say that the Crock Pot thickens.  That old Crock Pot is at it again and making a big pot of Barley Soup.  Technically it is Barley Soup, but it has everything in it which means that it has all the left-overs from the 'fridge in it.  That makes it the best soup and it smells so good.

Well, this week is winding down and All Saints and All Souls day is over, at least for me, but not for some as the day isn't quite over.  One of the days I will go to the Spanish Mass in the late afternoon, just to see if I can follow along.  It would be a challenge for my shriveled up brain capacity.

And thank God the election champagnes are just about over.  It is such a nasty farce of free elections because we really do not have a vote.  It is the antiquated electoral college that will decide the outcomes, not us citizens who cast the "popular vote."

I intend to go to bed early again and hope that I sleep better than last night.  I went to bed "hungry" and I never could sleep that way.  I considered getting up and eating something, but did not want to leave my cozy nest.  I finally did go to sleep, but in the wee hours.

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GRACE BE WITH ALL

THAT HAVE A LOVE

UNFAILING

FOR OUR LORD

JESUS CHRIST.

AMEN

 

Eph. 6: 24

 

Odd that I was "directed" to this particular verse because it isn't the passage that I was looking for, but one of similar of context, but longer.  It also is similar to something that I wrote to friends today, but not the same, yet it is the same.  Christ spoke of, taught about, and lived the massage of Love and we should try to do the same.  It is hard to love all God's people or someone that has that done wrong to you or has treated you in some harmful way.  It isn't easy, yet it is the prime directive of our Lord Jesus Christ.  If we live in love, with love, we are living with and in Christ as he wills us to do so.

 

 

 



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NOBODY'S PERFECT...

It has been a busy day, but uneventful.  I was a little slow about getting to mass today, but I made it.  I spent too much time doing odd things that counted for nothing, but took up my time.

My friends came this afternoon and did some more yard work, tree trimming and shrub removal.  There is more to do, but it got dark out and they couldn't see to work.

I stayed outside for awhile, but I got cold so I came in where it was warm.  I only stayed out there so that I would know when to lock my mower up.  I still haven't warmed up.

As I am tired and cold yet, I think I will go to bed early just to warm up.  When the doors are open it cools the house off fast and it takes a while to warm it up again.  So this a short post.

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JESUS SAID TO THEM,

"MY FOOD IS TO DO

THE WILL OF HIM

WHO SENT ME,

TO ACCOMPLISH

HIS WORK."

 

John 4: 34

 

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As the gospel today was from John I thought I would just take a little bit more from the Apostle.  Also, in re-reading what I commented on last evening, of Paul's letter, it sounds like I am calling Paul something of a braggart, which is not the case.  But you must read all of the chapter to get the intent of Paul's message to the Corinthians.  He is is clarifying  his conversion and the gifts that he and others  received.  Remember that he was blinded on the road to Damascus, converted and repented his persecution of the early Christians and began to teach and preach about Christ.  I sometimes do not word my impressions in a clear manner and have to re-think and often re-write.  Thanks for being patient with me.  I tend to be a little simple-minded!!  Well, you DO know that only God is perfect!

 

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