I Am Home Early. We Didn’t Have Practice. Isaac is Under the Weather, and I Have been Trying to Get Him to Rest.

That was another long Title! Ed has sever sinus problems, and coughing. He has been inside and at home until now. He is at the church, maybe on the phone, or studying for tomorrow. I needed the night at home if I could come, because I am tired from this week.

It was a wonderful experience teaching on Wednesday night for Ed. I thoroughly enjoyed the time with the group. They seemed to respond and they were very quiet. I was tempted to divided the group several ways when it came to praying. You get more done when the group is divided. It makes people think and pray together instead of one person taking it all.

I have pre-studied in case there is a problem again and I have to teach. I hope Ed will go home and be wise to get some rest and keep warm. He is on medication for this and I hope he gets over it soon. He has been at home all week-long. It takes time to heal .

The weather was up to 57 degrees here, and tomorrow morning it going to be colder. I love the weather and the fact that my fingers and toes are not aching from the cold. I have noticed that I ache in my back when it gets cold. Ed gave me a back rub this morning because I was stiff and tense . This eased it some, and I plan to take some Tylenol before bedtime.

Church comes three times a week for us. I usually plan ahead so that I can go get Michael. He gets the place warm for the morning. I don’t know if he will be going tomorrow. He didn’t feel good yesterday. He didn’t come to Recovery group.  That means that we emptied the trash, and cleaned up the kitchen, and some of the other areas that Michael handles. I hope to see him back at the church soon.

We went to Panera this afternoon, and I enjoyed soup and a Chai Tea Late. I do believe I am enjoying those again. The potato soup was awesome. I don’t know what they put in their soup that makes it so smooth. It does have some bacon, and plenty of potatoes. They are always done.

Last week-end we had a wedding going on at the church. We had rehearsal and then practice. We had a busy time. Isaac made the wedding cakes, so he and a friend worked on these until early in the morning. Lack of rest catches up with you. Today he is running a slight fever. He knows what he has to do tomorrow. He may or may not be there tomorrow. I try to discern if Isaac is wanting to come. He was putting up the Wii when I came home. It could be he is tired from last week.

Do you get tired of pushing to go wherever you have to go? This is why there should be a day of rest in your week. It mean much when you can run around in your pajamas and robe, and house shoes. I think so anyway. I love to clean in old clothes, and I clean more when everyone is coming down with something. It makes me think, and that makes me nervous.

The dryer is running and the washer. Tiger urinated on one of our little scatter rugs. So I have plenty of Tide and water to wash that rug and make it smell good again. I used a cat odor spray so that it would smell good again!! I wasn’t here when this happened. Tiger never has accidents that I know of, but he did today.

A Wonderful Meal

I worked all day preparing a meal for the Recovery group tonight. I found a nice piece of meat. The butcher cut a bigger version of this. I payed around 30 dollars for the meat. I put Rosemary, cuman, and Italian spice on it with black  pepper. I found some oil to put on the roast, and I did pray that it would be good.

The roast cooked all day. There was some time to get it down to the church, and then to put it in the oven there. Otherwise this roast cooked all day long. It was done, and the meat was not so tender that it fell apart. It was just tender.

I served baked apples, green bean casserole, gravy, roast beef,  baked beans, and brownies with marshmallows and chocolate chips. Some one brought some mashed potatoes. They were creamy and good.

For the minutes after the blessing the place was stirring. The group served their plates and sat down. They did not talk. They just ate. Soon all the roast that I served was about gone. Someone asked to take their wife a plate. I let him. They were married at the church last week. She was tired and did not come tonight. I was amazed that the whole group ate, and ate. I was tickled also. When you cook all day, it is nice if your food is eaten.

Several thanked me for the meal and told me it was good. I felt awed, and blessed and still was amazed that the all day preparation took 20 minutes to eat! I was tired, exhausted, and ready to sleep. Instead we watched a movie, and relaxed . It was wonderful also.

I would fix this meal again. I tried to get an eye of round roast instead of the chuck roast. There were hardly any roasts. The eye of round roast that was left was small. I like to get a long one.Mine turn out tender, even though this is a lean cut of meat.

I came home with some of the left overs. It is always nice to have meat and other things left to take home. I am tired, but I know that I did everything I could think of to make it a good meal. It was!

What’s for Supper??

Baked Beans? I Spice Them Up!

Baked beans? I spice them up. Today I am fixing them for the recovery group that meets every Friday night at the church. I bought a can of sweet beans, and a can of spicy. I mixed them together, and added BBQ sauce,and brown sugar, and two or three tablespoons of Karo syrup.. A smidgen will do. These are baking in the oven. I don’t cook them until they are dry, but I try to make a topping form on them.  This makes a different taste, and it goes with pork roast, or beef roast. Tonight I am having a modest roast of beef. We have eaten pork until I see it when I shut my eyes. Not really!

We went two places to find eye of round roast. I could not find a decent price on one. The butcher cut us a roast. It has the fat trimmed off, so I paid for the meat. I pray over my roasts, and usually add a little oil when I am praying. I did this time as well. I have two hours to go and this should be looking better, and almost done. We will reheat it just before the group gets there. I would hate to see what I would have to buy if more people came. Tonight we will have a smaller group because Ed and Isaac are under the weather. Ed has a terrible cough and sinus condition. He has been to the doctor. Isaac may be coming down with his version of it.

I woke early today and finally got up. I was wide awake praying over the day and the people we will meet with. Psalms 103 was especially good today, and if I have to give the lesson, this is what I will teach on.

Everything within you needs to submit to the living Christ, and then your body, soul, and spirit will be able to say,” Lord, fill me with the Holy Spirit.” We talked with a saint today in the grocery store as we were waiting on the meat from the butcher. I haven’t done this in that store in a long time. Fellowship is wonderful!!   You have to learn to listen to each other and respect what one person say. Feeling emotions for the hard times some one else is going through is being sensitive to the Holy Spirit. He prays for us like Romans 8 says, with groans, and words that we don’t know. He feels our pains, and hardships.

Psalms 100: 5 The Lord is good. His mercy will last forever. His truth will be there for everlasting.

I Got My License Renewed Today

I have dreaded going to get my license renewed, but I finally went today. I have thought for years……….2012 is when I have to get my license renewed. Today I took a friend with me. I went through the line, and the lady behind one of the desks pointed me to the I-pads.

“Oh, just go to the I-pads and you will be through in minutes,” she said.

I waited to get on the I-pad, and finally I typed in my information, typed in my card information for payment, and signed out. I went over to the desk that has the camera, and the lady said,”Your information did not come through on the I-pad. Go back to the same one, and check your information. Go quickly before someone gets your machine.

An older gentleman had the machine. So I waited…….first one after him. He asked for help, and I showed him how to use the machine. He was much older, and maybe wasn’t used to I-pads and modern technology. He gave up when the machine didn’t take all of his information. He went to the desk and asked for a form.

I thought, “I guess I will carefully do this over.”

I did without interruption, and each time takes at least 20 minutes if you are a good typist. I am, and it took me longer. Nothing happened. I reported to the desk 10 and the lady said, “No, your information did not go through. She gave me a form, and I grabbed a pad to write on. I had the information down in minutes and I took it to desk 10. The lady tried my card and it wouldn’t work. It made me feel like there wasn’t any money in the bank right there. I wrote a check and signed some papers. I went to get my picture, and waited some more. Finally my card came back, and hey, the picture isn’t too bad!

What did I learn from all this? I have a license that will have to be renewed in February of 2017. That is five years away. I hope they can put up with me, and I will go the long form instead of the I-pod. I am not impressed with machines that are supposed to work, but didn’t.

I went straight home, and asked Ed about my card, and why it didn’t work. He checked with the bank and we had plenty. There is not a good reason for why it didn’t work. I have to go. Thunder just showed up. We cut the computer off when it thunders. Ed and Isaac are saying, “Get off. Do it now!” Thunder is no help when you want to write!

Ed Went to the Doctor, and I Had To Teach at Church Tonight.

Ed said, I’ll go on to the doctor. You go to church and I’ll stay home with this. I don’t feel good. You can teach.”

I said, “Alright. I guess I will teach on Psalm 100.”

Ed left for the doctor’s office, and I finished writing another post for Rubies Corner. I got dressed and went to the church early. I could have watch a Bible movie, but I still knew I had to teach, and Psalm 100 was all that I had studied all day long. I gave the time to the Lord and tried to copy the little pictures that I put on the web about Psalms 100. I thought some pictures with the lesson might be nice. They could laugh with me over my artwork.

My children at school and in Jr. Church used to laugh with me over my drawings. It really made them want to draw and see if they could make it better than I did. Some did quite well. I have gone along with the laughter.

When I visualized the verse about “out of your belly will flow springs of living water” the ladies at the circle just cracked up. So did my sister who loved art and was very good with it. I drew an old-fashioned spicket that you turn on and off, and water was flowing out of it. No one thought that the water had a turn on and off knob, but you are either full of the Lord, or full of self. You decide to think about Him, or to be full of the devil. That is why the cut on and off spicket is there in my drawing. You lean on the Lord, pray, sing, meditate on Him, and read your Bible and you should be flowing with the living water He is talking about.

I asked a brand new Christian……….saved two months ago……….what he read today. He read Ephesians, Colossians, and Philippians. I was shocked, amazed, and thrilled.

I spoke on Psalms 100, and included other verses that the Lord gave me to talk about. I looked down on the page, and Proverbs had two wonderful verses for me. One spoke about the Lord giving me what to say when it was time to say it. I had just prayed about the lesson for tonight. I read those verses to them. Then I showed them copies of the drawings from Psalms 100. My computer at the church was so slow, and dragging. It finally made the copies.

I took somethings to the car before everyone was there. Someone drove up and asked, Are we having church. There is only one car in the parking lot. “

I said, “Yes, Ed is sick and I’m teaching.”

There was no comment, but I know this person was praying for me. He has been supportive before. The whole group listened and the Holy Spirit did help me with all that I said. I finally turned to Revelation 4: which shows a picture of heaven. A huge door opened and the Holy Spirit said for John, the writer, to “come up here.” He was immediately in the Spirit. I explained that you can be full of the Holy Spirit all day long as you tend your sick parents, go shopping, or read your Bible and pray. I spoke about making an effort to keep the door to heaven open, and that we are covered with the blood of Christ when God sees us as a church group praying, or as we individually walk into heaven and sing to Him, or make requests.

Make a joyful noise to the Lord. I explained how we can be cheerleaders in our praise by getting noise with shouting, clapping, and singing to the Lord. Some people I see clapping on their way at the red lights we stop at together. I know they are full of the Lord. We are transferred for the kingdom of darkness, to the kingdom of light when we receive Christ into our hearts.

Once a Christian man who led a revival at our church received a phone call at our home. I knew the lady was in need, and he reached for the phone. The Lord opened my eyes and I saw the living Christ in him. Through his hands and body the Lord was stretched out inside him. That was a vision, but my point is not that I saw a vision. My point is that the living Christ was in him, helping him to walk by faith and not by sight. He was full of the Holy Spirit. A revival that was supposed to be only 3 days, lasted at our church for weeks. May 8 weeks later we closed the meetings. God is wonderful and we shouldn’t judge someone by the way they look on the outside. God sees the heart.

I spoke of David tonight who tended sheep, but had a heart for the Lord. I spoke of taking time to go through the house and invite the Presence of the Lord into your home. Start at the entrance and go through every room, leaving none out. The darkness leaves, and you can sense the Presence of the Lord as you give Him your home. I do this often at the house. When I am going to study for a while, I go through the house and then sit down.

We leave Bibles out on the table, and sometimes they remain open, so that we are aware of the Lord in our home. We do watch television, and I can come back to the computer and talk about the Lord while the television is on if I want. I try to stay in the Presence of the Lord, and close. Sometimes and many during the day, I confess what is not of God, and try to stay in the light. The blood of Christ is needed to cover us, because there isn’t anyone righteous enough . Christ died that we could have life and have it abundantly. He loves us with everlasting life. He is MY shepherd. We can take that relationship and make Him our personal, close, friend and God.

Thanks for listening. You can go to Rubies corner and see the drawings on the web that are connected with Psalms 100.

We had carrot cake after the meeting. It was wonderful, and I was relieved to go home. We left a little earlier, because when I have finished, I don’t have any more to say! I am finished now, so I will say it has been wonderful today. I would teach and preach if given the opportunity. I love it. God helps me. He gave me wisdom, peace, love, joy, and  I was full of the Holy Spirit, because I leaned on Him for the lesson.

WORSHIP IN THE DARKNESS- a CARTOON BY RUBY CRAFT

WORSHIP

IN THE

DARKNESS WHEN

YOU DON’T FEEL

LIKE IT. HE IS

ALWAYS THERE.
HIS LIGHT WILL

SURROUND YOU.

HIS PEACE, LOVE,

AND JOY WILL ALWAYS BE THERE

FOR YOU, CAN WORSHIP IN THE DARKNESS.

PSALM 100- MORE PICTURES–SERVE THE LORD WITH GLADNESS. COME BEFORE HIM WITH SINGING!!

Psalm 100 –Art work

PSALM 100

MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE TO THE lORD. MAKE MUSIC EVERYONE. SING TO YOUR LORD, FOR HE MADE YOU.