AT THE BAR

I was amazed as I sat up at the bar how so many of us ladies have so much in common.  Now, for me this was a first time among the old timers, but I felt right at home.  Maybe I will get my nails done again sometime.  Ha  ha  First my eyebrows now my nails the old girl is going to town.  I grew up as a tom-boy hanging around with a lot of my brother's friends until school when I got girl friends.

This was one day last week after getting my hair cut.  Before all the beautiful snow arrived.

Sunday has been a quiet day although I did get out to take some pictures.
 The sun coming up through the big clouds was awesome.

I did miss going to church and dad really wanted to try the car out in the snow.  I think there are more snowy days ahead.  I walked over to buy him the Honey Lemon Tea and he has been drinking it and  I think he may be a bit better.  He is looking forward to watching the hockey game. I have to find out what I hit to make the writing change.

There is so much I do not know about this computer and gradually I will figure it out.  I hope.

Had time to listen to the C.B.C., write a letter, visit my neighbor and bake a cake and read!

Jesus made a startling announcement when he declared the time is fulfilled.  The temple would no longer by needed as the only place to worship God.  Time and space would now be filled with the glory of God.

This has been misunderstood through the ages.  Today we call it Deism which is a way of saying God is in a certain place and must be worshiped in a certain way.  That God is fat away in the heavens above. 

I believe that when Jesus said he was the way he meant the way for each day not the way to heaven.

Jesus was not a revolutionary but he knew that evil had to be battled and over come.

Jesus believe in the commandments of love and forgiveness and mercy and Compassion.

Jesus lived as one of us among all the unhappy and sick and lost souls.

Jesus embodied God but did not do miracles to prove his divinity.

"Jesus's powerful acts of healing, then together with all the other extraordinary things he said and did as credited to him by the gospel writers was not done to prove his "divinity"."
From the book "Simply Jesus"  by N. T.
Wright

The Bible is a witness for Jesus but he is not proof of it's rightness..

I agree we need a new vision of Jesus and of scripture.  We do not need the priests and the religious experts
to bless us with Holy Water but we are to become priests to one another.  I am all alone and yet there is warmth and peace and calm that comes with the grace of surrender and the filling of emptiness with the Holy Spirit that is pure light.

This will not last as the daily frustrations still upset me but maybe a little less than without this moment in time.

I hope and pray that dad feels better today or I think it is time to see the doctor.

There are always footprints in the snow even early in the morning showing others have gone before me.
Gundy will not walk with me because of the slippery snow and she has a slight cold.