Speedy Gonzales and the MRI.

 Speedy Gonzales and the MRI.

 

Sitting here reading online this morning and got a call from United Regional asking me if it would be convenient to take the MRI early. Yep, gotter done! Didn’t take long at all, but that room was like an ice berg! The tech person threw a heated blanket on me before we got started, so that helped. She played some of the golden oldies, but for the most part, that machine made more noise than the music. Oh well. At least my head did not have to go inside this time so claustrophobia was not a problem.

 

United had their chicken breasts on sale for 97 cents a pound, so the old woman filled up one side of the freezer with future food for herself and these two critters. It is so much cheaper and easier than whole chickens. Too much bone and work in the whole ones, so parts are cheaper and easier.

 

Really want to work on the front flower bed in the morning. Have not figured out exactly how to keep the freaking skeeters off my body, however. Jeannie walked over earlier and sat down on the bench on my front porch while we tried to find the taxi company here in WF so she could go get her a new phone or whatever. While we sat there, the nasty little black insects just about ate us alive! Even sprayed us with Deep Woods Off and still had bites on our legs. May just start a fire in the front yard near the flower bed and burn some of those little citronella things in the morning while trying to remove the weeds.

 

Wondering if we will get more rain since the forecasts for next week call for 40 to 50% chances of rain from Tuesday through the weekend. Don’t remember ever seeing this much rain through the end of May and into June, but my memory is not all that great for weather happenings unless it involved a stupid tornado or hail storm. Don’t need either of those for sure!

 

Reading again in the Torah lessons, Bradford talked about how Ninevah turned itself around and found favor with God in its repentance: “So if you want hope for a lost family member, your community, your nation that is redefining morality in a secular human way, maybe even your backslidden self, here it is. If you are a sinner, step 1: believe God (NOT believe IN God because James points out that even the demons do that). Step 2: sincerely repent and confess. And step 3: change your path and your ways. And then maybe, in His sovereign will, God will not punish you; or perhaps He will postpone it. But that is not for us to know or to choose. Rather, in faith we end our trespassing, do what is right in God’s eyes, and let the chips fall where they may. Any other attitude on our part simply proves that we haven’t sincerely repented and we sure don’t trust God. Rather, what we are really seeking is only better circumstances for ourselves (a self-centered motive).”

 

Who knows if our country will ever repent of the materialistic approach to life that we currently see. For ourselves, we need to ask God to show us our faults and to help us be repentant.

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.