My sermon tomorrow is about 'love'.
The collect says that anything we do without love means nothing.
The Old Testament lesson is Joseph welcoming the brothers who sold him into slavery in Egypt to join him--now an important man--and escape the famine in Israel.
Joseph loves those who made him a slave.
Amazing.
But Jesus goes further--"Love those who hate you", he says.
Along with many other difficult commandments.
Love is difficult.
But love is what matters.
Really....
Trump and Musk are leadig us down an unknown path.
Blaming the wrong side for the war between Russia and Ukrain is bad enough, but firing federal employees for no real reason is worse.
I feel like I'm living in an alternate universe.
Nothing makes sense with what Trump and his loyalists are doing.
I may implode.
I don't know.
What the hell can we do.
Lots of folks--including some Republicans are objecting.
But what's the chance they'll be heard?
God help us!
Really, we need God's help with these idiots....
Really....
I was looking at You Tube--as I do almost every day and saw a link to me talking about "Under the Castor Oil Tree", my blog!
I have no idea who put it on You Tube--none at all--or Why they did.
But, I showed it to Bern and she was impressed--and she's not easily impressed....
So, I'm a You Tube guy.
Only 11 views in 4 years.
Not so hot a You Tube guy....
Alas....
Today I drove up to Milton for our Wednesday Bible study.
When I got there, R. was in her car and yelled to me: (Jim, stay in your car.)
I take orders well and did.
A few minutes later, G. the Junior Warden arrived. I got out to say "hello" and realized that the parking lot was covered with a glaze of ice.
G. decided nobody should walk on it and sent me home.
He'll have it sanded by Sunday.
Ice--how great thou art!
It looks like we can have church on Sunday--YES!
We've missed the last two and I've not been happy.
I only go to church when I'm celebrating--I've told you that--but missing two Sundays makes me reconsider.
I miss church.
I really do.
So, I hope the weather holds and we can be together in Milton.
I've missed those folks.
Really missed.
I need to get back in the game....
Today I would normally put out the trash and recycling for pickup tomorrow.
Bern has pretty much cleared our walk to the driveway but the walkway to the back porch is iced over. Pulling the trash and recycling out to the front yard would be dangerous.
Besides with a foot or so iced-over snow in the yard, how would I get them away from the walkway and out from under the tree there?
Wait a week for trash and two weeks for recycling.
We have two recycling bins, so that will work.
The ICE RULES!!!
We lost our cable connection sometime on Sunday--no internet, no TV and no phone land-lines.
It finally came back mid-morning on Monday.
It's embarrassing to notice how much we depend on cable....
