Today the week took a direction that I was hoping it wouldn’t go but it definitely needed to go. We decided as a group that the Skunk Hollow girls would not get together for Christmas this year, which was to happen on Saturday. So we will celebrate in our hearts and hold each other close, and pray for deliverance from this STUPID virus and pray for health and healing and happiness for all of those who are dealing with it, or with some other issues (like Colleen’s broken shoulder! OUCH and double OUCH!!!). We plan to have a CHRISTMAS IN JULY celebration complete with decorating a tree, so that’s something to look forward to!
So I started in cleaning and spruced up the whole house, which is my normal Wednesday chore. Once that was finished, I had to buzz out to the mall really quickly to pick up two things (Santa’s secret errand). Now I am listening to Bramble House Christmas, and want to finish this in time to watch GODWINK CHRISTMAS which is on next. My favorite, even if I have watched it a gazillion times! I also hope to organize my Christmas Card list.
I listened to Rod from Martin’s Ferry. I must admit that it was a little to much to try and summarize easily. He talked about a passage in Revelation, but began with the passage in John: In the beginning. Revelation goes back to the beginning. Basically it is that Satan (Red Dragon) tried to stop the birth and life of Jesus, and he had and still has great power in our world. We see his influence playing out even in today’s world, and it effects our life. The further we stray from God the more angry we get. Satan has made war against those who follow God. But Jesus came to do battle for us. The real Christmas tree is the cross, and the Reason for the Season is Jesus’ death, His sacrifice for our salvation.
On this day in 1793 Noah Webster established NY’s first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, and in 1868 The first traffic lights were installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they used semaphore arms and were illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps. In 1941 Adolf Hitler ordered US ships to be torpedoed, and in 1965 “A Charlie Brown Christmas” first Peanuts animated special premiered on CBS in the US. Clarence Birdseye was born in 1886, Margaret Hamilton (starred in the Wizard of Oz) was born in 1902, and Kirk Douglas in 1916.
TOMORROW December 10 is:
Find something to be thankful for, to look forward to, to celebrate, and enjoy your day! God bless…
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