Look to the Helpers!

 Look to the Helpers!

 

Mr. Rogers would have liked my helpers. They are so very conscientious! Gregg repaired the drain pipes, put the sprayer on the water hose with enough torque to keep it from leaking, put down the fence panels that Thompson needed to keep him in the yard, and caught the little grass snake and threw it over the back fence. So glad that it did not bother him to pick it up and fling it over the fence rather than kill it. Grass snakes are harmless unless they happen to scare an old woman!

 

Vickie and Gregg must have a bit of a garden. They brought me squash (yellow) which are on cooking, a few cucumbers, two patty-pan squash, and two striped squashes. Sent eggs home with them plus some peanut M&Ms that the old woman should not eat. Fresh veggies are something that makes summer worth the heat waves.

 

Did a bit of proofreading for a friend and can hardly wait to see the printed version with the grey clouds of elephants’ trunks spewing! Judie Brunson has the best imagination ever! Gregg said that they were just about ready to walk out the door last weekend to come get this work done when a sudden flash of lightning changed their minds very quickly. Yep, elephant storms make lots of water and wild noises!

 

Talking with Judie for a while, and the old woman could not remember the term Moabitess which is what Ruth was. And Rahab was a Canaanite woman who lived in Jericho. Both of these women were ancestors of Jesus Christ. Now whether or not these two women were ancestors of Joseph or of Mary doesn’t really matter. Now Rahab married Salmon, an Israelite from the tribe of Judah. Her son was Boaz, the husband of Ruth. Joseph, the legal father of Jesus, is her direct descendant. It is FAITH that saved Rahab from the destruction of Jericho, and it was by FAITH that Ruth took care of Naomi (her MIL) and lay at the feet of Boaz for him to be able to claim her. We can only pray that our faith could be as strong and as significant for others as their faith has been in our history.

 

Truly enjoyed visiting with Judie. We both love books and our critters. And we talked up a storm about things that we both understand and appreciate! That doesn’t really happen very often in my life. And we can talk about religion easily and without feeling as if we are being preachy or preached at!

 

Very tired tonight even though not much got done today. Yes, vacuumed and did dust mopping, but the wet mopping just did not happen. Will maybe wait a couple of days to think about that. Love that my front flower bed is beginning to look as if it might make it. Will undoubtedly have to water sometime this week. Sigh.

 

Let us pray that the hatred unleashed by Iran and its proxies will not continue to affect the world. God can handle what we cannot.

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.