“The Anchor”… the “hub” of all sanity

Who is yours?

Do you recognize it at such?

Are you grateful for it?

This past month, I have realized a friend of mine is the anchor in the midst of all chaos in her household.

She has weathered the storms of home renovation, ill husband, healing father, displaced sister-in-law, anxiety riddled daughter, distant son, and uninformed mother of the bride to be.

She has accepted what she has been handed, gingerly stepping thru the minefield of chaos with grace.

She has offered up her pain and shouldered her cross for her family’s wellbeing at the sacrifice of her own believing, no knowing it is for her belief in Christ that keeps her strong, willing, and able to continue on.

11.17.2023

31⁰F clear NW@10mph SR0659 SS1635

Morning Offering given

Village sleeps

Friday has finally arrived

Need to look at tires, 275 65R18, expensive little things, I must say.

Ponder from Bacci: the greatest evil is the loss of God, and this inevitably follows the loss of grace and of the faith. We must safeguard our approach to life. Stay away from anything that might represent a near occasion of mortal sin. Avoid anything that is opposed to morals and the faith.

Time to face the world

Know you are prayed for

11.16.2023

41⁰F SSW@20mph SR0658 SS1636

Morning Offering given.

Village waking

The man is headed to Indiana again today.

7th night on cpap… hate it.

I F going fine. Will be ending week 5.

Know you are prayed for.

11.15.2023

40⁰F clear W@4mph SR0657 SS1637

Morning Offering given

Village waking

The man just left hosp run

Stomach feels better this morning. Thought it was flu yesterday, but today, I know it was something I ate the night before. Gall bladders or lack of them definitely react to grease.

Reflexology & chiropractic today.

Sending up & asking for prayers for Lavina. Cancer, having breathing issues this morning.

Intermittent Fasting continues week period 6. This is a slow weight loss program. Seldom do I feel hungry. I struggle with consuming enough water. I also struggle with getting enough activity. However, the weight continues to go down slowly but surely. The skin apron continues to thin. I wish it would leave the cushion on my behind but took that first. Sitting, not comfortable… hah, that’s so I walk more, right? Evil just evil.

Daily devotion… “The Shepards go to Bethlehem” Behold me, my God, most earnestly desirous of recollection myself in Thy presence; grant me the grace to understand the lessons Thou teaches, and to put them in practice. As fruit of these refections I resolve to follow unhesitatingly the prompting of grace, without giving time for other impressions to weaken my resolution and text me to draw back.

Anyone in need of these programs? Al-Anon is a “worldwide fellowship that offers a program of recovery for the families and friends of alcoholics, whether or not the alcoholic recognizes the existence of a drinking problem or seeks help.” Alateen “is part of the Al-Anon fellowship designed for the younger relatives and friends of alcoholics through the teen years. ” https://al-anon.org/ Narcotics Anonymous https://m.na.org/

Know you are prayed for.

11.14.2023

The man off to Indiana

31⁰F S@17mph SR0655 SS1648

Morning Offering given

Village waking

New baby early AM… mom and baby fine.

Today, my mom would have celebrated her 90th.

Having difficulty getting motivated this morning. Hopefully, a shower will change ge that.

Today’s meditation ‘Gloria in Excelsis Deo’ St Luke 2:13-14. Grant me, my God, the grace of holy recollection, during this short meditation, that I may forget all else but thee alone. Hence forth I will endeavor to cultivate a day firm goodwill.

Must get moving before I fall asleep.

Know you are prayed for.

11.13.2023

33⁰F clear WNW@10mph SR0654 SS1639

Morning Offering given

Village waking

No coffee this week. I’m doing a caffeine free week challenge. May God have mercy on those around me.

Week 5, period 4-Intermittent Fasting – down 8.6 #, clothes fitting looser, still struggling with the water intake, still haven’t measured, still not active enough. Less joint pain.

Cpap finished night 4, another morning headache, ridiculously dry mouth & nose (even with humidity turned up), dry cough has started. Sleeping on back is an issue. I am a side sleeper, which messes with the seal on the mask. Also, have an open mouth. They want me to use a chin strap… I will not! The full mask is irritating enough. 😒

Today’s devotion, “the angel & the shepards” St. Luke 2:8-12. Help me, my God, to make a good meditation, and to consecrate to thee all my thoughts and resolutions. Jesus wishes to be mySavior and Redeemer. He took upon himself my weak nature. He knows, in spite of my good intentions, my weakness is yielding at the first difficulty.

The day will be a steady one.

Know you are prayed for.

11.12.2023

41⁰F cloudy SSW@16mph SR0653 SS1640

Morning Offering given

Village sleeps

The man sleeps

Coffee good

New Daily Devotion “CRIB TO CROSS” meditations on the life of Christ. Angelus Press 2019. Translated from the French “De la crèche au calvaire” Messieurs Poussielque Freres Paris 1884 The Crib St. Luke 2:7. Help me, O my God, to keep my thoughts for a few moments from wandering so that I may remain recollected in Thy presence and solely intent on Thee.

Today, my brother Jeff would have turned 66. May he rest in peace.

MV Delhi musical today at 2pm. Looking forward to it.

Bible Study lesson on the Torah needs to be completed.

My plants need attention.

The boy got a dog. “CHOPPER”, some kind of hound.

Can we discuss the ugly face of alcoholism without giving offense? Without pointing fingers? Without taking offense?

. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Know you are prayed for.

Companies that belong to China now

Vaseline

Gerber

Tiffany & Co

Grub Hub

Sunglass Hut

Cleveland Cavaliers

Trader Joe’s

Chrysler

Citgo

Universal Music Group

Holiday Inn

Hellmans

Television

Hilton Hotels

Ben & Jerry’s

Budweiser

Tesla strike from list

Popeyes

Purina

Firestone

SnapChat

Riot Games Inc

John Hancock Life Ins

Lucky Strikes

Forbes Magazine

IBM Computer Div

Brookstone

Hoovers USA

Ironman

Alka Seltzer

Sotheby’s

Spotify

Now to find companies that are American

Another one bites the dust…

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-pope-francis-personally-removes-americas-bishop-joseph-strickland/

So I must ask…

(D-R) Psalm 13:1-6…

13 How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

3 Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

6 I will sing unto the Lord, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.

11.11.2023

30⁰F cloudy SSE@8mph SR0651 SS1641

Morning Offering given

Village sleeps

Coffee good

The man sleeps

Week 5 Intermittent Fasting has begun. I need to weigh and measure today.

Cpap… night 2 completed. I have questions for the tech store. Far as I can tell accomplishes nothing other than I woke with a headache each day I’ve used it, and vertigo happens when I put the headset on. IMNSHO, at this point, waste of time and $$.

Today’s Ponder… Imitation of Christ… “The proud and the covetous are never at rest; the poor and humble in spirit pass their life in abundance of peace.”

This must be discussing attitude, not physical deportment. What do you think?

The office shaped up nicely. Just want it done. So we can move on and get the other things on the list finished.

Mass tonight at 8. The man lectures.

Need to look at Bible Study lesson for Tuesday night.

Know you are prayed for.