09.18.2023

46⁰F SSE@7mph SR0645 SS1909

Morning Offering given

Village silent

Coffee

Breakfast very good

Bow season opened with hunters testing sundown. Very hard to see camoed hunters on a dark roadside. They lived, so did I.

Monday morning is here… the to-do list is long.

Much improved this morning in the health department.

Test driven car won’t be good for what I need it for. The search continues.

Baby run last night, still waiting for outcome.

The funeral… very nice Protestant service in a Catholic church.

I keep waiting for the grief and sadness. Over the weekend, I realized I went thru that process for the loss of my entire family when my dad died years ago. I was devastated and depressed for quite some time. I hadn’t had contact since then except for superficial public moments. I grieved and accepted their deaths at that time. I tried. I failed. I confessed my faults/sins. I accepted the loss of what could have been if we hadn’t been so broken. I leave the door open.

Know you are prayed for.

‘We Don’t Even Know What Gender We Are Anymore’: Young Mom Calls Women to Get Back to Homemaking, Says the Society Is Degrading

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09.17.2023

49⁰F N@7mph SR0644 SS1909

Morning Offering given

Village quiet

The man sleeps

Coffee good

Congestion has lessened, cough is productive, and ears are feeling better. I’m still staying home. No one else needs the cold. Although the old saying was it won’t get better till you give it away. Fiddlesticks to that.

Found next year’s planner at christianbooks.com check them out quality and price are right.

Have a Blest day.

Know you are prayed for y e

Old message, new reminder

Once upon a time, the devil appeared to three monks and said: If he gave you power to change something from the past, what would you change?

The first of them had great apostolic fervor, and he answered, “I would prevent you from making Adam and Eve fall into sin, so that mankind could not part ways from God.”

The second of them was a man full of mercy and said to him, “I would hinder you from God and condemn yourself forever.”

The third of them was the simplest and, instead of answering the tempter, he fell on his knees, made the sign of the cross and prayed saying, “Lord, deliver me from the devil of what could have been and was not.”

The devil, giving a loud scream and trembling in pain, flew away.

The other two, astonished, said to him, “Brother, why did you react like that?” “. He answered them:

“First of all, because we must NEVER DIALOGUE with the enemy.” Secondly, because there is no power in this world that can CHANGE the past. Third place, because Satan’s interest was not that we test our VIRTUE, but that, stuck in the PAST, we neglect the present, because it is the only time in which God gives us His grace and we can cooperate with it to FULFILL His will. Of all the demons, the one that traps men the most and prevents them from being happy is the one that CAN BE AND WASN’T. The past is left to God’s Mercy and the future to His Providence. Only the present is in our hands.”

09.14.2023

49⁰F clear SSE@8mph SR0643 SS1723

Morning Offering given

Cascade quiet

Coffee dripping

Sleep was decent

I’ll head for home today after the funeral

Fall weather has definitely arrived. These school children clad in shorts give me goose bumps on sight.

I should find a car wash this morning. Also, I need to fill the gas tank.

Lots of thought spiraling in my brain… most having to do with a list of things let undone these past few days. Others fall things that must be accomplished before winter arrives.

If you have an opportunity to see “Fishing with John” take it.

Time to get moving.

Know you are prayed for.