Good Saturday morning everyone. Hope that the week has been good to everyone. Packing and house showings continue today. Lots of dealing with realtors, making sure everything is straight. Dean has found a few things that he would like to look at - so I'm sure some realtor will be calling back.
I'm going to try to send Dean out to the library this afternoon while the house is showing so that he can get some of his class reading done in peace and quiet. Meanwhile I'll have the girls and Sean, perhaps we can get by and visit for awhile at Mom & Dad's house. Nicely overlapping events.
I hung out with the girls at Mom & Dad's this afternoon. The girls really enjoyed laying in the basement in front of the fireplace. They were nice and toasty. When I got back in the boys were about a half hour afterwards, they had had a great time at the library.
I'm going to have to do some shopping for a few outfits for job searching and new employment. I am hoping to have a job interview sometime next week. I don't know if it will come through, but if it is right it will happen.
Small tragedy this afternoon, Miss Lilly mistook my Italian glasses for a chew toy. I'm going to have to give the opthomologist a call on Monday to see about getting a replacement pair. Doing any computer work will require them.
Email & Newsletter Gleanings:
Thought for the Day: Someone is looking for exactly what you have to offer. - Louise L. Hay
"Excuse me, Are you Jesus?" This is really powerful and makes one think!!!!
A few years ago, a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago. They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night's dinner. In their rush, with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table which held a display of apples. Apples flew everywhere.
Without stopping or looking back, they all managed to reach the plane in time for their nearly missed boarding. ALL BUT ONE!! He paused, took a deep breath, got in touch with his feelings, and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned. He told his buddies to go on without him, waved good-bye, told one of them to call his wife when they arrived at their home destination and explain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples were all over the terminal floor. He was glad he did.
The 16 year old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her, no one stopping and no one to care for her plight. The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them back on the table and helped organize her display.
As he did this, he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set aside in another basket. When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl, "Here, please take this $40 for the damage we did. Are you okay?" She nodded through her tears. He continued on with, "I hope we didn't spoil your day too badly."
As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him , "Mister...." He paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued, "Are you Jesus?" He stopped in mid-stride, and he wondered. Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight
with that question burning and bouncing about in his soul: "Are you Jesus?"
Do people mistake you for Jesus? That's our destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace. If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk, and act as He would.
Knowing Him is more than simply quoting Scripture and going to church. It's actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day. You are the apple of His eye even though we, too, have been bruised by a fall. He stopped what He was doing and picked you and me up on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit.
I'm going to try to send Dean out to the library this afternoon while the house is showing so that he can get some of his class reading done in peace and quiet. Meanwhile I'll have the girls and Sean, perhaps we can get by and visit for awhile at Mom & Dad's house. Nicely overlapping events.
I hung out with the girls at Mom & Dad's this afternoon. The girls really enjoyed laying in the basement in front of the fireplace. They were nice and toasty. When I got back in the boys were about a half hour afterwards, they had had a great time at the library.
I'm going to have to do some shopping for a few outfits for job searching and new employment. I am hoping to have a job interview sometime next week. I don't know if it will come through, but if it is right it will happen.
Small tragedy this afternoon, Miss Lilly mistook my Italian glasses for a chew toy. I'm going to have to give the opthomologist a call on Monday to see about getting a replacement pair. Doing any computer work will require them.
Email & Newsletter Gleanings:
Thought for the Day: Someone is looking for exactly what you have to offer. - Louise L. Hay
DO AS HE WOULD
"Excuse me, Are you Jesus?" This is really powerful and makes one think!!!!
A few years ago, a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago. They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night's dinner. In their rush, with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table which held a display of apples. Apples flew everywhere.
Without stopping or looking back, they all managed to reach the plane in time for their nearly missed boarding. ALL BUT ONE!! He paused, took a deep breath, got in touch with his feelings, and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned. He told his buddies to go on without him, waved good-bye, told one of them to call his wife when they arrived at their home destination and explain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples were all over the terminal floor. He was glad he did.
The 16 year old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her, no one stopping and no one to care for her plight. The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them back on the table and helped organize her display.
As he did this, he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set aside in another basket. When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl, "Here, please take this $40 for the damage we did. Are you okay?" She nodded through her tears. He continued on with, "I hope we didn't spoil your day too badly."
As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him , "Mister...." He paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued, "Are you Jesus?" He stopped in mid-stride, and he wondered. Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight
with that question burning and bouncing about in his soul: "Are you Jesus?"
Do people mistake you for Jesus? That's our destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace. If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk, and act as He would.
Knowing Him is more than simply quoting Scripture and going to church. It's actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day. You are the apple of His eye even though we, too, have been bruised by a fall. He stopped what He was doing and picked you and me up on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit.
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