What was my day like, you ask. It was crazy busy mixed up and shaken together – but good! My work(s) were both busy & crazy. But good. I stopped and got gas for the car and stamps at the post office. After a quick sandwich I cleaned the house, but nothing outside. I didn’t really have time. I was reading contest stories as a guest author for my daughter. Ages 9-16. So fun to read that age! Some were very good!
I listened to Kelly’s preacher Rod at Martin’s Ferry Church. He made my cry. There is so much going on with Kelly right now, and the support and love and prayers from these Godly people are amazing. It leaves me in awe. I feel humbled. But his 3 part series is called ‘I Feel Good’ – taken from Ecclesiastics and Solomon’s musings. Are you a pessimist or optimist? Both are right, but optimists smile more often, and praise God more often. And it’s all in how you look at it. Solomon said everything was meaningless – wisdom, pleasure, career, riches and wealth, even religion. Nothing good under the sun. So. What is left? What gives satisfaction and meaning to life? GOD! He is our joy – the relationship we have with God. Working for God is not a chore; it is a privilege, because he’s our best friend. He is our shepherd, and we are the sheep of his pasture. WE are not the shepherd! God will lead, direct, and care for us – even the hairs on our head are numbered, he knows us so well! Feeling Good is being a sheep! It’s a DECISION! SO: Feel Good!
On this day in 1505 after a violent thunder storm Martin Luther declares that he will become a monk! In 1962, Sam Walton opened his first Walmart store in Rogers Arkansas. In 1979 the Susan B Anthony dollar – the first US coin to honor a woman – was issued. Ernest Hemingway died at age 61 in 1961, and Jimmy Stewart died at age 89 in 1997. Lindsay Lohan was born in 1986, and today is my friend Susan Zollinger’s birthday. Happy birthday Sue! Have a great day!
And a little known fact: On this day in 1776 the Continental Congress actually declared independence – It was on July 4th that the wording was actually approved. That day was chosen, almost 100 years later, to officially be our nation’s birthday. Even though the war began before that, and ended long after that, and the declaration wasn’t even completely signed until August! Check it out! Have a great day – God Bless…
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