Raindrops are falling at my house!

Thunder, lightening. In January?

We should be on the edge of the rain changing to snow or ice. It is 37, 38 degrees right now. Tonight's low will hover around freezing.

So what to do with my day. Farming is out. So Maybe I will do some year end stuff for Memama. Maybe some research about feasibility for upcoming changes.

At the farm, Memama had very few hands. Minimal witholdings. In fact we will probably do 1099's with witholdings rather than W-2's.

What a crowd at church yesterday. I was crawled over multiple times by a band of grandkids that sat in the middle of my row.

I am so thankful that next week we are going back to two services.

I am trying to decide where the line should be drawn on theatrics in religion. Not just drama. Lighting. Special effects. Video. Audio.

Phil has brought up some good thought points. He said that Jesus spent his entire life in an area of about 600 square miles. (About the size of Taylor county). Now I don't doubt Jesus had an idea of how big the earth was, but I wonder about the apostles take on this. It was a pretty big charge to take the message into all the world.

Did Jesus see things happening two thousand years later like the internet, twitter, radio, television. All tools that whittle the world down to size.

But you have to admit, for a group of guys from Galilee the task had to be daunting. Yet it was accepted willingly.

For 2012, the theme at Southern Hills is going to be prayer. We are being challenged to become a prayerful people.

Lots of good stuff going on.

While the crowd was much larger yesterday I felt the singing was short of the previous week (of course the new year service was stellar).

I ran errands late yesterday. RSVP, Corley's, Kinko's (o.k., Fedex office). My friend who is incarcerated had asked me to make copies of his addresses and mail it to him. This proved to be a bigger project than I thought. Two big sheets, front and back, but them a whole stack of correspondences, notes, envelopes, and scraps of paper. So I got to read them and them had to make a determination of how valid it was to his request. While I have done this for a number of years for him, I am beginning to feel used and also am amazed at how much money I have invested. Most of my correspondences are MULTIPLE pages and cost sometimes as much as $7 to mail. Throw in gas, copy costs, postage, not even figuring my time and it adds up.

I did run across a letter from my friends uncle last July where the uncle notified him he had sent $200 to my friends inmate trust account. I don't recall that being the story conveyed to me.

My final errand was the grocery store.

Well, better figure out my day.

Have one!

FATHER, thank YOU for the continued progress of Anna. I ask that YOU continue to bless her with YOUR gifts of healing and care. Thank YOU for YOUR rain blessing. Help me to make good choices. Thank YOU for loving me.