January 20, 2021

These will be the last living room photos! Project officially complete! Everything is put in place, and subsequently scrubbed and dusted. It was fun working with Nate, and the house seemed so much more alive and vibrant with someone else here for a few weeks.

I was reading a book on my break this afternoon and came across this line: He was laid back to the point of being horizontal. I love it! Don’t you know someone like that???

I will share Mike’s message from Hempfield today. It’s part of the ‘relationship busters’ series: Envy. Definition is resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by another and the desire to possess that same advantage. Envy is not a gentle emotion and can be dangerous. It’s not just that you want what someone has; you also want the other person NOT to have it! Envy can lead to evil: Cain killed Abel; King Saul tried to kill David. We are usually envious of someone we know or are close to. Envy is always right there so be careful – it ‘rots the bones’. Don’t let it build and destroy you. You can overcome envy by recognizing it as an issue, praying, and being careful how you handle success, so as not to cause envy in another person.

On this day in 1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the first woman to testify before congress. In 1945 F D Roosevelt was sworn in for an unprecedented (and never to be repeated) 4th term as president. In 1949 J Edgar Hoover gave Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen, and in 1982 Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat on stage in Iowa (My one question would be: WHY?????). In 2009 Joe Biden assumes office of Vice President; and today he was worn in as the 46th president of the United States. Let’s be true American’s – ‘that’s my president’. Buzz Aldrin was born in 1930. Johnny Weissmuller (TARZAN) died in 1984 at age 79, and Audrey Hepburn at age 63 in 1993.

TOMORROW January 21 is:

• National Granola Bar Day
• National Hugging Day – yea right. Just TRY to hug someone!!!!
• Squirrel Appreciation Day – I don’t think I have EVER appreciated a squirrel!
• Get to Know Your Customers Day 
• Autmn Rose’s 18th birthday! Sneak preview; more tomorrow!

Today is the first day of the next four years. What you do with it is up to you. It won’t change or go away and no one may even ask your opinion, Democrat or Republican. Pray, love, laugh, and rejoice! Again I say, rejoice!!!