The village has put up so many stop signs you’d think it was Madison.
We’ve got less than 1100 people here and stop signs galore.
The money could have been better spent on street repair, curb, and gutter. Are these things decided at the village meeting? Maybe I should attend.
They spent way too much money at the police department, too. Considering no one ever sees them on the streets anymore.
31°F NE7mph SR0631 SS1757
Morning Offering given… Jesus take me as I am, summon out what I should be, set your seal upon my heart, Holy Spirit dwell in me.
Coffee good
NT… morning routine completed
IF...continues. Ya know how sometimes when you suck in your gut it feels like you reach your backbone? This morning it feels like that.
Cpap… used/hated, dry mouth ugh. Need new mask, headgear, and hose. It’s farting at me.
Wild fires Texas panhandle & Canada: Powerlines destroyed, homes destroyed, towns evacuated, people & animals killed. Please pray for those who have lost everything and those who may be in the path of the fires. Anyone know how they started?
Scripture on Complete Conviction… John 3:19-21, 16:18, Acts 19:8, 28:24, 1John 3:19 Read them, mull them over.
Are you still cultivating your relationship with Jesus or have you fallen back into your old ways of going thru the motions without engaging your heart? Being a good friend is hard work, you know this. Don’t give up, if you find yourself just going thru the motions head to confession. Yeah I know doesn’t seem to be anyone in that confessional these days does there. What is the point of it if the priest isn’t present? What is the point if you have to make an appointment. Well hey, I got news for you… no one comes cause the priest is never there. The priest gives the impression its no big deal. People follow their lead. I hear they just don’t want to spend time there if no one comes. Perhaps they need to spend time there praying for their flock. Okay, rant over.
Hope your day is a good one.
Know you are prayed for.
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.
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?
Copyright 1952, 1953, 1981 by Alcoholics Anonymous Publishing
Know you are prayed for.
Jan. 6 Is Looking Like a ‘Fedsurrection’ https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/jan-6-is-looking-like-a-fedsurrection_4168160.html?utm_source=andshare
35⁰F cloudy WNW@9mph SR0650 SS1642
Morning Offering given
Village trucks in parking lot are active
The man working out
Coffee is good
Working my way through an Amazon return. What a nightmare. Chinese companies on there apparently don’t like bad reviews… then, they shouldn’t send inferior products under other names is my response. Their thick wool winter sock description should have read… “thin as gossamer synthetic fiber with 1 wool strand guaranteed to make your feet smell”. Live and learn.
Am thankful the weekend is upon us.
Know you are prayed for
28⁰F clear NW@4mph SR0742 SS1749
Morning Offering given
Village sleeps
Coffee good
The man sick
Chicken run this morning
Iowa run late morning
Betrayal… is the sense of being harmed by the intentional actions or omissions of a trusted person. The most common forms of betrayal are harmful disclosures of confidential information, disloyalty, infidelity, and dishonesty. They can be traumatic and cause considerable distress. The effects of betrayal include shock, loss and grief, morbid pre-occupation, damaged self-esteem, self-doubting, and anger. Not infrequently, they produce life-altering changes. The effects of a catastrophic betrayal are most relevant for anxiety disorders, and OC D and PTSD in particular. Betrayal can cause mental contamination, and the betrayer commonly becomes a source of contamination.
Along with… I confess to almighty God, and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned through my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done, and in what I have failed to do; through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you my brothers and sisters to pray for me to the Lord our God.
All I can say is… where the heck does my mind (at this hour) pluck these thoughts from?
However, these thoughts are much better than… dreaming your sister in law took you to the zoo during a tornado, and all the animals were out while she drove through flooded streets in a car now turned an amphibious machine. Saying relax, you are too tense… wish you could have seen the grizzly dancing he looked happy.
Know you are prayed for.
46⁰F NNE@13mph SR0715 SS1821
Morning Offering given
Village wet and grateful for rain
Coffee good
The man sleeps
New furnace is quiet something called two stages, which keeps fan blowing. All I know is it is comfortable in here.
Making a quick trip to IA this morning and back.
Looking forward to having supper with the boy at 5 tonight… New Mexican place in Sparta.
Yesterday, I started intermittent fasting with the Body Fast app. I think this might help me get serious and lose some weight… 100# to be exact. Now to get those measurements done.
Scripture… 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, 10:31, 3:16-17, 12:27, 15:44; Roman’s 12:1-2; 1 Tim 4:8, 5:23, Matt 6:22-23; Phillipians 1:20; Psalm 100:3; Roman’s 12:4; Genesis 35:11-12; and more. https://www.openbible.info/topics/our_bodies_being_temples
Pulled Made to Crave off the bookshelf. Time to read it again.
Question… can acedia be the issue?
Know you are prayed for.
70⁰ F SW@12mph SR0703 SS1839
Morning Offering given
Village quiet
Coffee aroma infiltrating the house. The taste is ambrosia.
12 years ago, I came across the most wonderful smelling plant. The giant blooms looked like trumpets. The colors were glorious. I studied it and found it was 100% poison. I wanted one. The man brought one home a couple weeks ago. It sits on my front porch. I will try this winter to keep it alive. It over winters in a dark basement till spring.
Angel’s trumpet is a very poisonous plant, causing intense hallucinations, seizures, and even death in the most severe cases. This plant can also cause poisoning through various routes. You can get poisoned by touching, inhaling, or eating almost any part of an angel’s trumpet. The intoxicating scents are variously described as musk, lemon, mint, lily, hyacinth, citrus, jasmine, gardenia, and more. Regardless, the fragrance is most noticeable on warm summer evenings. (WI Hort. EDU)
We humans are fickle and vain. We want beauty, comfort, adoration, and power. We want it knowing it will poison us. This plant reminds me of that defect in my character.
Tread carefully, my friend. satan entices with beauty and power but can only survive in dark dormant places.
Know you are prayed for.
Someone once said…
“Bitterness is like a toxic brew that we mix for our enemies just to end up drinking it ourselves.”
Convicted!
In the "Wilds of Wisconsin & Cornfields of Iowa" 