The day started out sunny, hot, and humid.  Still enjoyed my morning walk, and took time to give my plants a drink before getting ready for work.  It was a longer work day- lots to do in the two stores!  Cleaning the house was boring but rewarding, because I love a tidy house.  I also loved my Snoopy calendar page for the day – it’s sort of a thing with me, this kindness thing (Better to be kind than to be right!). Heard reports of tornadoes to the north of us, but here it merely rained.  I used the cooling off to make potato soup and had some for supper. 

Last night I listened to Greg’s message from Vanderbilt.  He talked about the phrase SON OF MAN, and how may times it was mentioned in the old and new testament, and how many times Jesus referred to himself using that term.  There are several scriptures reflecting that it was not always used in a flattering manner – but then again, he pointed out how God takes our humility and unworthiness and turns it around.  Sort of like a ‘bus boy’ in a restaurant, who comes after people and ‘cleans up the mess’!  Jesus is always taking the mess we make of our lives and cleans it up –  He referred to himself as a servant, but then was exalted and elevated about all.  We need to be on our knees to God – that is what matters – and God will lift us up.  Whatever is happening around us is temporary.  God’s got this! 

On this day in 1896 Henry Ford took his first Ford through the streets of Detroit.  In 2018 Bill Clinton and James Patterson co-publish ‘The President is Missing’.  King George III (from whom the thirteen colonies won their independence) was born in 1738, and today is National Old Maid’s Day, National Cheese Day, and National Hug your Cat day!   

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If we humble ourselves God will exalt us.  That’s not an easy concept – but God can do all things!  God bless – – –