2021 April 18

Pastor Lott had another great sermon on beginning again. I really hope that she has plans beyond goods sermons. I pray that we become doers and not hearers only.

I kind of touched on that this morning on Sunday school. I asked how many had come to Cross Tracks Church from another church. All of us! Every one of us joined this church after leaving another church. So, while we enlarged the roll call of this congregation, there was no net gain to the kingdom old God. That’s not the best way to grow a church.

We stopped at Wendy’s for lunch because the only thing I could’ve think of for a quick lunch was chipped beef on toast, also known as s.o.s.

We were low on bread so I started some this afternoon. It finished baking around 8 p.m. Once it was sufficiently cooled, I sealed it for freshness. It was tough to not cut into it and slather it with butter and chow down on it.

Scripture Reading: 2 Corinthians 5:6-9

6. So we are always confident. We know that as long as we are living in these bodies, we are living away from the Lord. 7. Indeed, our lives are guided by faith, not by sight. 8. We are confident and prefer to live away from this body and to live with the Lord. 9. Whether we live in the body or move out of it, our goal is to be pleasing to him.

Think: Paul longed for the day when he no longer needed faith. As faithful a Paul was, he longed for that day when he had the assurance of sight. He wanted to be present with the Lord in a more complete way. But he also reminds us that no matter if present with the Lord or not, we are to live a life pleasing to him.

Pray: Dear Lord, I also long to live with you in glory. Until that day, increase my faith, patience, and love so that I may hear you say, “Well done, good and faithful servant.” Amen.

2020 November 26 Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Thursday

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Clear? I beg to differ! It appears to my untrained eye to be cloudy overcast. However, I’m not accredited by the American Meteorological Society, so go ahead and trust the experts – it’s clear.
After all these are the same people who brought us global warming – oh, sorry that may be impossible to substantiate – so let’s call it climate change. And in their world view, decide it is a man-made condition, rather than a cyclic change in solar activity or natural occurring events.
I will not disagree that there is climate change. It happens. It has always happened. Texas was once at the bottom of the ocean. Part of the Gulf of Mexico was once dry land. There have been 3 “mini ice ages”. 1 beginning about 1650, another about 1770, and the last in 1850. And then there was also was a time of warm climate change lasting from 950 to 1250.
I think it is the height of hubris to believe that tiny insignificant humans can drastically change the climate. And the more reasonable explanation for climate cooling or climate warming are causes by natural phenomena outside of human control. Perhaps we humans should also take credit or blame for the shifting magnetic north pole.
Here ends the history and science lessons for today.
We will call this our Throwback Thursday report for this week.

This morning I cut the oatmeal pumpkin bar in half, slathered on some marshmallow creme and made a sandwich out of it. Then it was cut into bars. Ella said they are good.

Ella made a Carmel apple cobbler

Two “middle aged” folks enjoying the sunshine and each other. Since we plan to live past 150, we are in or middle years.

Thanksgiving dinner (middle meal of the day) consisted of turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, and broccoli. Dessert was pumpkin pie and Carmel apple cobbler, and real whipped cream. We are very blessed.

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2020 November 25 1 Month ‘Till Christmas

Wednesday

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Some interesting clouds this morning.Lunch was a very hardy veritable stew with dumplings. Some leftovers, a can of mixed veggies, and a can of V8. Once it was a bubbling boil, I added the dumpling mixture. Dumplings were Bisquik and milk batter.

We stopped by the church to see how construction was progressing. The crew was at work on the “Louine Noble” education center.
Though we couldn’t see people working on the upstairs portion of the multi purpose worship center, we could tell by the Haul away trash container outside the building, that work was progressing there also.

Tonight I baked a pumpkin pie. There was enough filling for a 9″ pie. I had only a smaller pie pan. That was fine. I made a smaller pie. However, that meant I had filling left over.
What to do? What to do? I crushed some mixed nuts and added them to the pumpkin. Then I mixed in an amount of oatmeal. When I had a consistency that seemed right to me, I poured it into a flat bottom pan lined with aluminum foil. Made a guess at 350° for 20 minutes.
After 20 minutes I added 10 more minutes ’cause it just didn’t look solid enough. After the additional 10 minutes, I judged it firm enough but not browned enough on top.
Next I placed it under the broiler and rotated it about a 1/4 turn every minute or so so that it would brown evenly. Once I was satisfied that I was done, I removed it to cool.
Finally a cut a small bar and shared it with Ella. She declared it “not bad”. And so another adventure in creative baking came to an end.

.God bless and g’nite