June 20. It was already very humid when we got up this morning so Daddy turned the a/c on early. He left at 7:30 this morning to pick up Connie and take her to Lab Corp to have blood work done. While he was gone, I washed the dishes, made my bed, looked for yarn for my next project, and started gathering things together to take over to the girls’ hosue. Daddy got back a little after 9:00, and we headed for the girls’ house some time after 9:30. We are thankful for the Lord’s help in checking Acts 24 this morning, after which I got corrections made, set up chapter 24 in the print file, and got English set up for 25. Before lunch, I deleted a few e-mails and answered one. Daddy and I both took a fairly long nap. Christy was already home when we got up, and had gotten home shortly after we lay down. She had her nap on Connie’s bed. This afternoon, I made the shopping list and worked on organizing the leadership lessons for meeting with pastors and deacons and their wives. In his Wednesday evening preaching, Pastor continued in the book of Esther—Making an Appeal. Many others in the Bible made appeals, e.g. Moses, Nehemiah, Daniel, Paul, etc. Each of these made appeals to heathen kings and their lives were at stake. Attitudes and actions will impact appeal. 1) An appeal is most effective when it is based on a Biblical principle, mandate, or precedent. 2) An appeal is most effective when preceded by a time of prayer. 3) An appeal is most effective when you are prepared. 4) An appeal is most effective when we’re willing to be patient. “16I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. 17O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. 18Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come. 19Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!“ (Psalm 71:16-19) Even when we become old and grayheaded, our lives can and should still show forth God’s strength, power, righteousness, and wondrous works to everyone around us. June 21. First day of summer. Daddy put bread out on the deck railing this morning, as we often do for the birds. After a while a dove came along and, starting at one end of the railing, proceeded to make her way to the other end, tossing each piece of bread off onto the deck or ground as she went. She was so comical, and we wish we had had a camera in hand to catch a video of her antics. Somewhere around 8:15 or so this morning, we left here to do our shopping. We didn’t have much on the list with stops planned only for WM and Aldi so didn’t expect to be out long. We were soon done selecting our items at WM and ready to checkout. The person at checkout 5 was nearly done and was ready to pay so we put our items on the belt. She had a gift card of some kind, however, and several people spent who-knows-how-long trying to figure out how to scan it and make it work. So we waited and waited until she finally decided to just pay for her purchases with her credit card. In the mean time, I went off to the restroom, and when I got back, Daddy was done. However, he discovered that the sweet potatoes had been rung up wrong so we headed over to customer service to check on that. Had to wait a couple minutes for another customer, but then the lady there had trouble over-writing the wrong price and had to go back to the checkout to re-weigh and get the proper price. It was after 9:30 before we got out of there, and I felt like I had had a day of it already. Our shopping experience at Aldi was less stressful and didn’t take long. We decided we would stop at Mighty Dollar to see what they had for natural bath soap and a squeegee. We did get a squeegee, but there was no bath soap in bar form. Took a quick look at the craft aisle and purchased some green painter’s tape and dark rose yarn. After that, we headed home, arriving around 10:30. After I put food away, Daddy and I checked Acts 25. Then I prepared broccoli and cauliflower and put it on to cook to go with Daddy’s dinner—leftover rice and haddock. While that was cooking, I got corrections made in the Aposel (Acts) file, set it up in the print file, and added Acts 26, ready for its Pidgin partner to come beside it next time. This afternoon, I did some checking of Romans, then made a cheesecake, and then did some more checking of Romans. This evening, I did a little painting and a little crocheting. “1Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? 2For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.” Isaiah 66:1,2 The LORD is looking for men and women who are poor and of a contrite spirit, and who tremble at His word. Lord, may I be one of those women.
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