January 19. Thirtieth day of winter. Not quite as cold this morning, but still in the 20’s. Warmed up to around 50. Ahhh, warm sunshine! Thank you, Lord. Started laundry right away this morning and let it wash while I had breakfast and quiet time. Christy didn’t have to go to work until 9:30 today, and she was glad to be back home before 3:00 as she has a cold and hasn’t been feeling that well. Right after Christy left for work, Daddy and I left for the week’s shopping. A day late this week due to the weather. There were hardly any people out shopping this morning. There was hardly any produce on the shelves at Aldi. Their trucks hadn’t been able to get in. I was quite excited, however, to find grass fed ground lamb at Aldi. I don’t handle ground beef that well. Lidl had plenty of produce, and we bought a few items there. WalMart had produce sale prices marked a penny less than Lidl. Their organic bananas were less than their regular bananas so we were able to buy organic today. Shortly before we came home, Mary M came by with Connie’s final secret sister gift—a beautiful quilt that she had pieced together and Joan P had stitched. She had just left when we called Connie to let her know we were on our way home. I still need to get her gift made, but will need to take it to her at her house. Even though we went to three stores, we still arrived home a little after 11:30. After we put groceries away, Daddy went off to Subway for his lunch, and I warmed up a cupful of soup and drank it. Then I sewed the button eyes and mouth onto Christy’s snowman and stitched around the two head pieces, lightly stuffing it before I closed it up. This afternoon, I printed out some papers for Christy to fill in. Also a man came by trying to sell us boxes of restaurant meat that was left over from his sales to restaurants. He was offering us a good price, but we had to buy it by cases, and we don’t want to put out that much money. After the man left, Daddy and Christy went to meet Mel L and Beth at a couple of houses so Mel could look them over for us. Ellen was with Mel, and they both came here afterward to report on what Mel had seen. Both houses have a number of problems, and both have old wiring. This evening, I made a savory lamb patty for my supper with part of the ground lamb we had bought today. Ruth called to say that James is now in hospice. Late this evening, I finished Christy’s snowman. Praise the Lord for His help. That is ready now for her to give to her secret sister. “O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.” Psalm 104:24 It is such a delight to read through the Psalms and meditate on them. They are so full of praise to the Almighty God, the God of gods, and have so many reminders of all His wondrous works. And we have evidence all around us of His mighty works. The earth is full of His riches! Compare Psalm 33:5—The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.
January 20. Thirty-first day of winter. 29º this morning, but went up to 60 today, and the Lord gave us sunshine too. This morning, I made a cookie mix for my secret sister and printed out the recipe for making up the cookies. Crocheted a jar topper to go on the jar of mix and put the gift, recipe, and greeting card all together in a gift bag. This afternoon and evening, I transferred this past week’s photos to the computer and spent a good amount of time getting those edited. Ruth called again this evening to let me know that she and Tammy had gone to see James at the hospice center. Also told me that people from Maranatha Baptist Church had been by to talk with her and had left her a tract called “How to Be 100% Sure of Heaven.” I’m so thankful for that church going out visiting, and told her it was a good church and that was good literature for her to read. Assured her of our prayers for her and James and told her I love her. Hope we can get out to see James soon. “And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.” Leviticus 23:22 Once again, God tells of how much He cares for the poor, and how we should do the same.
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