23°F clouds NNW@7mph
Morning Offering given
Village quiet
Coffee, should have been tea as first choice
The man still sleeps, glad for that, once again he did too much yesterday
Typical Monday happening for me today. Hope to be home by 5 or sooner. Heard Madison got a 10″ snow dump, weatherman says snow is possible here Tuesday, hopefully it will go around us,my tulips are coming up and I’d love to see them this year.
The photo below are daffodils for my friend Mary, who mentioned them a while back.
Happy Birthday to my eldest son, Michael. WOW! that went by fast…see you later in the week.
Today in scripture, we reading about Jesus writing in the dirt. John 8:8…lots of speculation about what exactly he did write that caused all those stone throwers to drop them and disappear. My focus is what this did for Mary Magdalene. There she was, standing with a circle of holy men wanting to throw stones at her. Jesus steps into her life, and she stands waiting for condemnation… poof! …that is all it takes… Jesus makes a difference. After, mind you, after the threat of death has left, Jesus then says, “sin no more.” Simply stop doing what you were doing, and from this day forward, don’t do it again.
All she had to do was “stop” the sin period. Start a new way of living. She already knew it would be hard. She already knew the road ahead would take time, energy, pain, heartache, and more. She made one step after another moving forward with Jesus to make that change. She didn’t deny she had a past, she didn’t pretend the past wasn’t there. She simply moved forward. That was/is faith. Each of us can do this with our focus on Christ.
Know you are prayed for.
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