Today will be a quiet day. Work was not very busy but both stores warned me that sales have picked up! So that’s good news!
I made a salad for lunch, with garlic toast. I’ve been trying to eat healthier, with fruit and veggies and salad.
The red-turned-yellow house below me that was being renovated was finally put on the market. I checked it out online and there is already a ‘sale pending’ notice. It will be interesting to see who the new neighbors will be.
Just got word that Westmoreland Manor will open certain units for window visits – Mom’s unit is on the list! So thanks to Kath we have a visit scheduled for next week. It will be so much easier than the facetime visits for Mom.
Today I will share Steve’s message from Maplewood. He will be sharing traditional Lent messages, and this one was Baptism & Temptation. We have to learn to say NO, and deny ourselves. Forty is a core number in scripture: 40 years in a generation, 40 days of rain (Noah), 40 days that Moses was on the mountain, 40 days that Jesus was in the dessert after his baptism, 40 years roaming the dessert waiting to enter the promised land. We need to recognize that our journey is not in our hands – it is spirit-led: 1) LAW – we have no control, and we have to learn how to give up being in control, and to receive what he wants to give us. 2) RENOUNCE – we have to learn how to renounce. We see religion as adding something to our existing life, when actually is should BE a way of life. Jesus renounced some things that were good (food, heaven, etc). Jesus was an ordinary man, and he emptied himself to be like us, but without sin. Life is more than bread – make space for God.
On this day in 1455 Johannes Gutenberg printed the first Bible (estimated date). In 1927 President Calvin Coolidge created the Federal Radio Commission, and in 1945 US Marines raised an American flag on top of the mountain in Iwo Jima. The first mass inoculation against polio with Jonas Salk vaccine was distributed at an elementary school in Pittsburgh in 1954, and in 1997 NBC shows Schindler’s List completely uncensored (65M viewers). George Frideric Handel (MESSIAH) was born in 1685, Victor Fleming (director for Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind) was born in 1889, and Michael Dell (Dell Computer Technologies) was born in 1965. John Keats (poet) died from TB at age 25 in 1821, Stan Laurel (of Laurel and Hardy) died at age 74 in 1965, and James Herriot (All Creatures Great and Small) died in 1995.
TOMORROW February 24 is:
Only one thing to celebrate tomorrow so make it good! I think I’ll just celebrate ‘National Clean your House Day’ (just made that up)! God bless…
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