My treadmill and auxiliary speakers weren’t working all week. So this morning I didn’t expect much but both worked just fine. I’ll never figure out electronic devices….
I had a few things to handle this morning, but then got down to baking cookies. Not a favorite chore these days. Just can’t seem to get things done quite as smoothly as I always have done. And for some reason I feel a heaviness over me. I need to pray it away! I have a little plaque on my wall about having quiet time; but lately there’s a little bit too much of that going around! I am blessed in so many ways, but every once in a while I need to just sigh and make my own music!
But I put on my Christmas CD’s and got to work, and baked cinnamon rolls, candy cane cookies, and peanut blossoms. This week I will get to the chocolate covered peanut butter pretzel nuggets – my favorite! Tomorrow is my friend Gen’s birthday and they had a zoom party – I popped in for a few minutes but I’m not good with that stuff. It was fun to see her kids and grandkids in ‘person’. There were a lot of people in that zoom room!
While I was baking the cookies I listened to Paul at River Hill. Most people say they need to see it to believe it, but God’s directive is exactly the opposite! He expects us to believe it before we see it! We need to trust that God will do what he says, and have faith that it’s how he wants to use us. He is a God of miracles, and that’s how he works! We often think that we need to be perfect before he’ll choose us for a task, but he uses everyone. Even those who doubt, as did Zachariah. The angel told him he would be a father, and Zachariah asked how that could be! So even though Zachariah didn’t think it was possible, God worked through him and Elizabeth, and John (the Baptist) was born, the fore-runner of Jesus. We need to be ready and be a vessel for God.
On this day in 1887 Thomas Edison recorded himself reciting Mary Had a Little Lamb, and in 1923 Calvin Coolidge (30th president) broadcast the first US Presidential address on the radio. Agnes Moorehead was born in 1900, and in 343 St. Nicholas (model for Santa Claus) died at age 73. Jefferson Davis (81) died in 1887 and Pete Rozelle in 1996.
TOMORROW December 7 is:
- National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (and Gen’s birthday!!!)
- National Illinois Day
- National Cotton Candy Day
I am not going to Illinois tomorrow – I’ll have to celebrate from here. I will think about Pearl Harbor and also Gen — more about that tomorrow! God bless…
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