Stories and other stuff

I am blessed.  Blessed to live where I do, to have the job I have, and to have the people in my life that I do.  I know that, so this isn't complaining.  I'm telling a story.  That's all. I have a lot of broken things.  My truck runs, but not well in the heat.  My computer works, but my profile on this computer somehow got corrupted.  Bucky ran away, and that busted my checking account some.  The carpet cleaner was broken.  I changed the belt but it still didn't work, and my bedroom carpet was a mess from Mr. Bucky's muddy adventure.  To top it off, a piece of plastic somehow found its way into the impeller of the pump for the washing machine.  When I cleared the jam, I reinstalled the pump and forgot to hook up the drain line for the washer, so my laminate floor has some warps in it from the water that got into the seams.  The pump doesn't work, either, so for the time being, no washing machine.  And then there was June...

Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.      Psalm 119:105 I'm reading, albeit slowly, a book called Jesus Club. It's a book about how this guy started a ministry at the high school he graduated from and how it grew. Yesterday, I read a story about how he was passing a skateboard shop, needing $200 more dollars for something God told him to do and he heard God telling him to go to the skateboard shop.  After a brief argument, he gave in, flipped a u-turn and went in. Turns out, he'd met the lady who owned said shop before, while standing in line at an amusement park near their home and had enough of a conversation that she remembered him.  He told her of his need for $200.  She started crying because God had laid it on her heart that she needed to take $200 with her to work because she was gonna meet someone who needed it. Great story.  I love how God's people, when they yield to Him, get stuff done. I prepared today's Bibl...

I am not the smartest person I know.  I have not always held that opinion of myself, but seven years of God's refining fire have all but eliminated the high regard I once held myself in.  That's a great thing, by the way.  Anyway, with that said, I hold a high regard for learned people because often times I learn things from even those I disagree with My choice for news as of late is MSNBC.  I came to my own understanding several years ago that Fixed News (I really miss Keith Olbermann) aka Fox News is anything but fair and balanced. I can distinguish news from commentary. News is what gets reported on.  Panels discussing reported news is commentary. I work nights so I don't see many of their shows but I did tonight and what I saw on MSNBC frightened me.  I saw two grown-ups, two well established, card carrying Republicans Diana DelPerciuo, and George Will express concerns about our President. And I saw Rachel Maddow lay out the case that Mike Pence l...

I wrote yesterday about the pool.  I enjoy it but forgot how much work they can be.  Bugs are drowning themselves.  The pool is already dirty.  I have to find a leak. Welcome to summer. But that's not the bad part.  I like the pool.  I don't like alone.  And is my won't sometimes, I get tempted to do this or that about it.  Or memories of past summers bring up memories of things I am better served by not remembering. I've been kinda dealing with that lately. I love summer, barbecues, camping, swimming, picnics, an d a bunch of stuff like that.  I enjoy the pool but it's much more fun to have beers and enjoy it with friends or late night chunky dunkin' with that someone special. And now you know what I mean by stumbling block. The pool itself is a blessing.   But what I  do with that blessing is up to me. I would love to have someone to share it with but that's not in the cards today.  Soon, but not today.  And I cert...

Odd things happen to moi. The other day we studied a passage from the book of Exodus at our Wednesday Bible study.  That afternoon I saw a Facebook post with that very passage as the theme.   I also saw a Nene about one of Jesus' I AM statements.  That's the topic of our course of study four the next little bit. I am paying attention. I ran ahead of God a bit I think.  I bought a used pool.  It turned into an ordeal.  It's nice though and I am grateful to have it Wendi came up today to collect her mother and her tribe.  Those kids are a handful.  Sophia got mad because the other two children were helping me set up the pool after they had finished their cereal.  Breakfast was on the patio.  She smashed one of my good Pfaltzgraff dishes on the cement. A trip to Walmart for plastic bowls fixed that problem.  It was the start of a hectic day.  I have a pool with a ladder.  Getting there cost me $30 more than I had pl...