Hi There!
I’ve been absent for part of the week and thought I’d better show up or you all will quit coming to visit! 
It has been an incredibly busy week. Doris has had doctor’s appointments three days this week plus, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, we assist Mae with transportation to her physical therapy sessions. These will last another several weeks. Tuesday was a work day, and on top of all that, I’ve been a bit under the weather myself.
Remember that fall I took several nights ago, up our front steps and onto the front porch? Well, I nearly did some damage this time! Both knees are bruised badly, as well as places on both arms, and the fingers on my left hand are sore to the point that typing is a wee bit uncomfortable AND my ring finger is swollen so that some rings I normaly wear won’t go over my knuckle! I’ve been clumsy all of my life and have tumbled around like a ball, as my mom used to say, but I’ve only infrequently hurt anything much except my pride!! It’s all getting better, though……………I’m gonna live!
Our weather has been all over the place. Freezing rain just a few miles over the river, to cold temperatures, to fog, to freezing fog, to some rain, to the forecast of near-70 degree temperatures in a couple of days, only expected to plummet to 19 by Monday morning!
In other matters, I am seeing the finish line ahead with my daily Bible reading schedule. I began this journey on January 1st, of course. I’ve begun many times before and then abandoned the schedule to pursue my own agenda with study. This year I’ve stuck to it pretty well. There have been a few days I’ve missed and had to catch up, but I have done so. I’m in Hebrews now and came across a couple of passages the other day, one of which is among my very favorites.
Hebrews 4:14-16 is a defining passage of scripture for me. It is such a comfort to know that my high priest lived on this earth as a human and IS touched by my weaknesses and that I am able to approach the throne of grace with thanksgiving and receive mercy. A passage in Hebrews 2 conveys some of the same thoughts. These are very healing and wonderful assurances and, at this time of year when we are focusing on the birth of the Christ-child, it is wonderful to think on these things. What a truly blessed event the coming of this Child was and how absolutely bereft we would be without Him.
TODAY’S SMILES:
- Some warmer temperatures.
- Doris has had a decent day.
- Hailey’s basketball team is 4-0! They have to be outstanding because she’s on the team!
- Forgiving and being forgiven for stupid, thougthless acts.
- Old friends.
- New friends.
- Kids running across a school yard.
I’ll be back at least by Sunday evening. Love and joy to you all. God bless.
meowmix
December 18th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Hebrews is one of my favorite books to teach. Can’t say how many times I’ve started the “Bible in a year” reading plan and never got through January. But this coming year we’re going to try it again, as a couple. This church we’re attending and thinking of “joining” is using a weekly study plan in conjunction with the teaching from the pulpit this year, so we will give it our best.
Hope you get over your soreness sooner than later. I was planning on emailing you Friday to see where you’ve been. Probably should have done so yesterday so you’d know I was missing you and thinking about you, but I was preoccupied with death.
December 19th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Watch those falls girl. The older we get the less bounce we have in our bounce, don’t I know.