As we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior

~ Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful ~

Ok, so I don't have a fireplace anymore, but it is nice and cozy and warm inside
while it is a frightful 30 degrees outside. 

After that last post, one thought comes to mind....

"Engage"

Any Star Trek fan will understand. 

(I am now going to 'engage'' with life by leaving my screen, cooking my breakfast, getting a shower,
and doing whatever else I might manage before my physical therapist gets here. )

on fracking and drilling and all the other things we do....
What are we doing to this world?
Why can't people see that we are in the wrong direction?
We have air we can't breathe,
water we can't drink,
and earth that poisons the food that we eat... kills the bees that help us to get our food...
kills the fish in our waters... makes the cattle on our land unworthy to eat, contaminated
with hormones and other chemicals.

Yet we insist on our vehicles that pollute the air...
we insist on our 24 hour around the clock life, rather than giving the earth a break and shutting
down the electrical power plants that pollute the environment in so many ways, including light pollution...
How different would the world be if after the sun went down people were actually able to look up and
see the stars in the night sky?  How much closer to God would they feel?  How much more would they
acknowledge God?
Satan has done a good job of separating us from knowing God, by separating us from the wonders given us by God,
and putting our minds on all these things which are destroying us... all the while being blind
to how they have destroyed us.
Our reliance on all our conveniences, while beneficial to start, have in the long run ruined our health.
We no longer walk and use our bodies.  Instead of working the earth with our hands and keeping our bodies
mobile and strong, we sit at machines, working, playing, and being idle in front of television sets and screens.
Instead of talking to one another, and helping one another, we stare at screens that now fit in our hands,
more disconnected from the glory and purpose of God's creation than ever.

We insist on destroying this planet.
We are the ones causing the earth to shake, with our insistence on having things our way, and looking away
from the way that the Creator has given us.  The One who created is the One who knows what is best, and we
insist on messing with what is best until in the end it is destroyed.
 

on the Guantanimo incidents....
We need to make converts... converted hearts
not confirm their reasons to hate us
Where are the psychologists?
We need to defeat evil by converting hearts
fighting evil with evil wins nothing,
it only serves satan.
Who is winning in this battle with the mid-east?
Are hearts being won for God?
Or are hearts being turned to satan?
 

but in happier thoughts:
What a beautiful day we are having here...
what a beautiful sky.

+ Christmas lights =

Icy outside again....

and it sure is nice to have a cozy warm house to come into...

Task for today completed:
the swags are hung.... (that would be the lights hung on my porch rail... what a job to untangle them!)

Lord send me an energetic man for Christmas.
put him on Santa's sleigh just for me... to be delivered to my address...

  (to keep for all future Christmases to come. )

~ all I want for Christmas ~

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All this today had me wondering if my mother still bothers with decorations since her husbands passing.
It got me thinking about the last time I visited and it is a funny story.  I went down at Christmastime
and there was a nice Christmas gathering in the community club house which my mother had been involved
in the planning/preparation of... this made me remember the reason she had been involved...  She had to
do community service... at 70+ years of age my mother who was never in any kind of trouble her whole life,
was ordered by the court to do community service.  What was her crime?  Parking in a handicap parking space,
with a handicap decal which was for her husband whom just happened not to be with her this trip.  Apparently
somebody complained and she was confronted and ticketed.  She went to court to avoid the horrendous
cost of the fine.
Imagine begrudging a 70 year old woman, shopping alone for her 80+ husband, taking advantage of a
closer parking space.  It's not even like there weren't other handicapped spaces available.
Have you ever seen how many handicap spaces Walmart provides?  Of course it was Florida and those spaces
probably get used alot more down there with all the retired folks.
Anyway, it is a funny story to tell.... my mother the 70+ year old having to do community service.  lol

Ever since somebody mentioned them, I've had a craving for orange rolls.

It is far too cold and drear today.
The porch decorations will be waiting for better days.

I think I'll work on setting up the indoor 'winter village' today.

Faith, Hope, Joy, Love....
all of the above....

fire, water, wind, earth...
what is it all worth....

(just some silly thoughts that went through my head early in my day. )
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Well I got as far as setting up the little tree and the nativity.
The nativity always comes out... and waits for baby Jesus to be added to the manger on Christmas eve.
Maybe tomorrow I'll get to the front porch ???

Today was physical therapy day. It really cuts in to my time for doing other things.

I just stepped out to get the mail, and, Yikes! It is frigid for a mere 45 degrees.
There is a brisk wind blowing. I came in and checked the online weather report and
it gives a feels like temp. of 38. They aren't kidding... feels more like 32!

I think maybe I will go dig out some Christmas decorations now, to hopefully put up tomorrow?
I can't decide if I really want to be bothered with it or not.

~ day is done, gone the sun ~
day is done, nearly before it's begun,
now that winter is here.