Or, if I am always in the dark. Or here's one: I am prettier in the dark. How about: "blackness, blackness bringing me down, come and light a candle in the old heart of mine...." It is as black as pitch out there and I am thinking about poor Suzanne having to drive to work in what appears to be the middle of the night. In a few weeks, it will be darker yet as we fall back an hour. Am I thinking correctly about that? Correct me, if I am mistaken about this. I do know we fall back, but will it be darker yet at 6:44 a.m.?
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Sunday began with tears as I wrote on Facebook about singing, in my head, the hymn "Children of the Heavenly Father" which was our closing song for worship. The night ended the same way with the Jaguars taking a royal beating, 41-0. It was just an awful display, awful! Joanne was here to watch with me, the first time she has watched this season and this is the way it ended up! Ugh! On the bright side, we did enjoy our supper of Newton hot dogs on Publix rolls. Jo brought Cape Cod chips to have with the hot dogs and two slices of cheesecake for dessert, but we were too full to eat dessert! Guess what I am having for breakfast today...
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Not only did Joanne bring her potato chips and cheesecake, she also came bearing a huge box of envelopes and a shopping bag of CHRISTmas cards---let me re-type that to "holiday cards" as they are fairly generic in nature. She has asked me to help her out with hand addressing them, plus her monthly mailings. Yikes! I have a ton of other stuff to take care of before the end of the month including working at church this week (one week down, one to go!), a booklet for the preschool open house on the 22nd, a Luther display for the 25th, the two newsletters....I had made a personal promise to have my desk cleaned off before Linda J. gets here but now I am having to rethink that a bit!
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Worship and Bible study were very nice yesterday, as we begin our Stewardship series. The Bible study was about spending "good" time with the family, biological family and church family, in the Word. Take advantage of formal opportunities plus the ones had around the kitchen table or before going to sleep at night. I am glad Justin and I get our time together attending Bible study at Victory before his class on Thursdays. The Sunday School children sang at the beginning of the service and did a wonderful job, nice and loud. Suzanne is doing a good job having the kids memorize their songs so they are not reading off a sheet of paper up front. Our choir sang, "Where Your Treasure Is" and so did First German's choir, which I find very cool!
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I am going to be swamped the next few weeks with some huge projects before me. Besides doing Joanne's envelopes, I am making a pamphlet for the preschool open house, doing a Lutherland display for the Reformation Service on the 25th, and working this week yet in the church office. I told someone that I have to figure out a way to fill out the envelopes from my recliner or bed so I can keep my feet up. Sitting in the desk chair all day results in swollen ankle, on my "bad" knee side. Boy, I miss that swimming pool! My body really liked the workouts gotten in the pool all season long. Our temps have been lovely recently, although some are murmuring about them. Stop it! Just stop it! Sometimes it is all about me!
