Good Saturday to you from our corner of the world where winter continues to bring us snow and bitter cold and then teases us with an unusually warm day here and there. Spring is officially less than a month away, but then again March has brought us some pretty wild stormy wintery weather most years.
Speaking of wild and stormy, I cannot help but be drawn to the Ukraine and what is happening in their country. To hear that this kind of military invasion has not been seen in Europe since World War II is a bit disturbing. There is no understanding or getting into the mind of leaders like Putin. In my way of thinking, he is power hungry and evil. Lord have mercy on the Ukranians, especially the children.
Speaking of children, I am thinking of a video I watched on Facebook that involved a boy about 2-3 years old. I may have shared it here, but will do so again.....just to make us smile. It was one of those videos where the mom puts the child in front of his favorite candy and tells him not to touch it. He can have it when she returns but not until then. She leaves the room, secretly videotaping this boy. He waits and waits, struggling and struggling not to eat this candy....a huge temptation for him. Finally he says ..."Mom?" and then sighs and mutters, "Mom is a dang stinky-butt". I burst out laughing when I watched this.....and I am in complete agreement here with this little guy. Mom IS being a stinky-butt to put this little guy through this! But he keeps waiting, until his mom comes back and lets him have the candy. I question how many of us would be so patient..
I confess there are more than a few times I have wanted to call, or maybe have called people stinky-butts, although not to their faces~~~! Lately it has been my favorite new word? Today I said, "Satan, you are a stinky-butt!" Always causing trouble, trying to destroy God's creation, His people. John 10:10 tells us, "The thief has come to kill, steal, and destroy.......but I (Jesus) have come to give you life and give it to you more abundantly." This certainly qualifies Satan to be a "stinky-butt"!
It has been a week! A wonky eye shot left me in a lot of pain and discomfort for a couple days. Our youngest daughter had knee replacement surgery. My 74 year old cousin died in Oregon. But.......my eye healed and our daughter Sarah did well and is home recovering. And we take comfort that my cousin loved the Lord. During the week we were able to talk for a long time with our three treasures in the north country, I read and sorted quite a few articles on my journey to gather info for a book. We watched an excellent teaching in the healing school class we attend, plus a couple other sermons and teachings. We have laughed, cried, contemplated life and death together. Even though my body has me resting more, we went to church last Sunday and to a "puzzle exchange" before church where people brought in puzzles and exchanged them for others to take home. I made Joel a pumpkin pie, cooked, cleaned, blah, blah blah. We talked with friends in WI and Mesa AZ. and talked with a lot of family too. This week has been much like life as we all experience it......a mixture of the good, bad, and the ugly. And we give thanks because we are not hiding in the subway while bombs fall on our city. Yeah........it could be so much worse, couldn't it?
Speaking of teachings, we heard a brief one on "Prayer" this week by a professor at a Lutheran college and I have to say it was very disappointing. I turned to Joel and said, "That is it?" Really? The importance of prayer is found written in the scriptures. I have found myself wanting to defend my beliefs about prayer.......to whom I do not really know! So frustrating
Speaking of that....maybe.......We have an Alexa. Sometimes she talks to us without us instigating a conversation. Somtimes she can't answer our questions. Somtimes she won't play the radio stations I request. You would think she was not real!! One night we were sitting in the living room watching TV and all of a sudden she said, "Good night!" in a lilting voice unlike her normal voice....we looked at each other and said, "Okay that was weird," I have actually heard that a murder was solved through an Alexa because it records everything. Hmmmmmm Someone else told me that some place like China could be gathering info on us through Alexa. Maybe. Just saying.............we lead pretty boring lives. Not much if anything to gather! I do enjoy listening to music on Alexa and asking her questions at times.
Last Sunday night we watched the season finale of one the most delightful shows on TV and above all, our favorite. "All Creatures Great and Small" on PBS is excellent. Decades ago we watched the first series, but the "new" version is so updated, and well written. Would recommend it to everyone.
It is about time to end this "no really exciting news" Saturday's Scribbles on the last weekend of February. If you made it this far, bless you. I am remembering and giving thanks for how often God walked with us through the days and nights this week, how He spoke to us through his word, devotions, and a whispering in our ears. Giving thanks for the beautiful show "All Creatures Great and Smalal". Giving thanks for Sarah's surgery going well, my eye healing, pumpkin pie for Joel, new puzzles to try, Alexa...I think?, phone calls with friends and family, texts and pics from our daughter's adventures, laughter, tears, remembering the little guy and his "stinky-butt" frustration, professors who challenge and also frustrate, the prayers that bring us together and connect us with God. Thankful for our warm home, safe community, our country. And so much more....................
Enjoy your weekend!
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