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♥♥ The Weather ♥♥
A bitter morning today!
Monday - sunny, 53/28
Tuesday - partly cloudy 57/33
Wednesday -partly /cloudy, 62/33
Thursday -partly cloudy, 57/41
Friday - rain, 50/41
♥♥ As I look outside my window ♥♥
The air is still, the trees are bare, the frost has killed, I think winter is here!
♥♥ Right now I am ♥♥
Dressed and ready for my morning coffee.. I am meeting a friend at the Garden Club and hubby is very slowto rise this morning. It is a kind of a slow day!
♥♥ Thinking and pondering ♥♥
Now that the dinner party is over, it felt like there was not much happening until Christmas, but then yesterday we received a wonderful invitation to join a church group at one of our pastor’s home on Thanksgiving!I think there must be several families included, when I suggested that I bring Mac and cheese casserole I felt she hoped for a big batch because the kids would love that! But it feels all is right in the world again!
♥♥How am I feeling ♥♥
Even though the heat was turned back and the humidifier was on in our room I feel very dry , nasally and my skin itches like crazy. Things I do not enjoy about winter!
♥♥ On the breakfast plate ♥♥
As is wonderfully usual, Lynn always prepares our fruited yogurt. This morning I’ve been invited to the Garden Club to enjoy a presentation of an interior designer who creates extravagant and gorgeous vignettes for the holidays. Then there will be a brunch type refreshing. Sounds fun to me!
♥♥ On the dinner plate ♥♥
Leftovers from the dinner party:
Butternut squash soup with toasted baguette, Pork loin roast, sweet potato casserole, rolls
♥♥ What I'm wearing ♥♥
I will get a little more dressed up and put on makeup today for my special morning. I think a Christmassy theme is warranted. So I decided on black slacks, and my red sweater set. I am also wearing for the first time the beautiful silk scarf I bought in the Glen Coe nature center in Scotland. It is medium gray background with a silvery gray frosty trees as the print. I think it is gorgeous!
♥♥ On my reading pile ♥♥
We will be finishing up the book of Jeremiah this week. This week I will begin working on a project for a special wrapping for the several books I purchased for my granddaughters. It will included a decorative tag specific to each book that has a detectives clue they need to read the book to find the answer. I think it will be fun for us all!
♥♥ On my TV this week ♥♥
Finally some new and much better Hallmark Christmas movies. I, also, love the many Christmas decorating and cooking vlogs.
Creative Update:
We got about half of our Christmas decor up for the dinner party Saturday night. That was a huge success by the way! I have some more decorating to do including correcting a bit of a problem with mantel garland. It was a different style and rather heavy. We had to hang it with cup hooks (5) across the top of the mantel. This hooks show, but I have an idea on what to do to make them disappear!
♥♥ Looking around the house ♥♥
The house is clean,decorated and ready for anyone to stop by!
♥♥A Favorite Vlog ♥♥
Entertaining with Beth is a wonderful cooking vlog, I love her recipes. She had a part 1 that goes along with this one, but it is how she plans her set up back in October. This one is about the food!
♥♥ To Do List ♥ ♥
- Garden Club
- Marketing
- Bible Reading
- Work on children’s gift tag detective clues
- Make the Mac and cheese casserole
- Thanksgiving Day with friends and their children.. I love to be around children
- The plantation shutters will be installed mid-week
- Get those pesky leaves raked up and picked up!
♥ ♥ From the camera ♥ ♥
When I Am Anxious
There is a promise suited to every sin you are tempted to commit and every form of unbelief that takes you off guard and makes you anxious. For example:
When I am anxious about being sick, I battle unbelief with the promise, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all” (Psalm 34:19). And I take the promise with trembling, “knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us” (Romans 5:3–5).
When I am anxious about getting old, I battle unbelief with the promise: “Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save” (Isaiah 46:4).
When I am anxious about dying, I battle unbelief with the promise that “none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living” (Romans 14:7–9).
When I am anxious that I may make shipwreck of faith and fall away from God, I battle unbelief with the promises, “He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ” (Philippians 1:6); and, “He is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them” (Hebrews 7:25).
So, let us make war, not with other people, but with our own unbelief. It is the root of anxiety, which, in turn, is the root of so many other sins.
So, let us fix our eyes on the precious and very great promises of God. Take up the Bible, ask the Holy Spirit for help, lay the promises up in your heart, and fight the good fight — to live by faith in future grace.
Your dinner party pictures look amazing. And the garden club presentation sounds fun, hope you enjoyed. Mac and cheese is always a hit! Hope you have a wonderful week and a very happy Thanksgiving!
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