A devotional meditation

Last night in worship team practice we sang, "Spirit of God Descend Upon My Heart" to the tune "Morecambe". That same tune is used for the song by one of my favorite hymn writers, Horatius Bonar. It is "Here, O My Lord I See Thee Face to Face". For your morning meditation here are the words. Read and worship!

Here O my Lord I see thee face to face; here would I touch and handle things unseen, here grasp with firmer hand the eternal grace, and all my weariness upon thee lean.

Here would I feed upon the bread of God, here drink with thee the royal wine of heav'n; here would I lay aside each earthly load, here taste afresh the calm of sin forgiv'n.

This is the hour of banquet and of song; this is the heav'nly table spread for me: here let me feast, and, feasting, still prolong the brief, bright hour of fellowship with thee.

I have no help but thine, nor do I need another arm save thine to lean upon: it is enough, my Lord, enough indeed; my strength is in thy might, thy might alone.

Mine is the sin, but thine the righteousness; mine is the guilt, but thine the cleansing blood; here is my robe, my refuge, and my peace, thy blood, thy righteousness, O Lord my God.

Omaha's crazy weather

Look at this crazy weather. It keeps getting colder as the day progresses! I can hardly see across the field for the snow. But it's not supposed to last long, the snow that is. The cold will be here awhile. Yesterday it was 55F!! I cleaned up the driveway, washed the car, pulled leaves out from around the air conditioner and from the eavestrough on the garage. Even raked the willow branches out of the backyard and cut back that wild "Gramma's" rose. I think Sleeping Beauty's thorny hedge must've been made from Gramma's rose. We cooked out chicken, too. Ah, tastes like summer.
But today.....Sheesh, it's January again!

CURRENT CONDITIONS Condition: SNOW Temperature: 5° F RealFeel: -29° F Wind: NNW 31 mph Barometer: 29.80 in/Hg Humidity: 76% Sunrise: 7:38 AM Sunset: 5:35 PM

Girls Night Out

Friday night I went my first "girls night out". We went to a Mexican restaurant, had a great time getting to know new friends and eating good food. The we met up at a dollar theatre and saw the funniest movie! Dan in Real Life is the name of it. About a dad who is a widower and raising three daughters alone. He falls in love with his brother's girlfriend before he knows she's his brother's girlfriend. It is hilarious, especially for those of us who are either in that teenage rearing stage or finished with it. (Thank goodness, I'm in the latter!!!) To make it funnier, the man is Steve Carell, the head guy in The Office. Of course if you haven't seen that yet, you won't get it. The girl is Juliette Binoche. It is well worth a view!

Weekend in Iowa

We went to my mom's this weekend. Over one day and back the next. She needed some help with her computer, so Den took an old one of ours over and bought a new modem. She still has dial-up, but she writes letters and loves hearing from family via email. So she was feeling cut off from everyone. It was a weekend in the 40's, so we figured we could risk a trip across I-80. It was a lovely weekend. Flickr has pictures for you Iowa lovers. I just couldn't resist the "Sprint" silos. Great signal here! *smile* And we had a bit of time to catch up with our old friends, Tom and Sue and Dan and Donna. We went out Saturday evening with the A's and Mom. We had to wait AGES! But we had a good visit. Sunday lunch we caught up with Tom and Sue and THAT is NEVER long enough! We were all young mothers together 25+ years ago. They started their families before I did, but I met them nearly 30 years ago when I went to begin my teaching career. Dan was the headmaster and my "boss"! (Hard to think of him like that!) They both have grand children who all are in the church they go to. What a way to grow the church. Sue (right) and her family have been in this church since she grew up. Her dad is still there along with Sue, her children and grandchildren. I think that is so wonderful! Enjoyed our time with Mom and all the friends.

Oh, just one more today

My begonia is blooming. Great color in January. I'm trying different things with my camera. I need Meredith to help me. I love the pink.

"Endless" music

I can sit here all day and never have to touch a dial, and never have to listen to a commercial, nor a fundraiser, nor a weather or news report. Thanks to a brilliant husband who loves this stuff, the old laptop that seems hardly good for anything, is now giving me as much of my favorite music as I would like. How spoiled is that? And when all my favorites have played, I can play ANY of our CD's that have been uploaded. You know that means any Bob Dylan that I want....!!!! Or Larry Norman, Or Paul Simon, Or any 60's-70's group....Or maybe Cono Choir, or Bach, Beethoven, Brahms....
Right now it's The Three Tenors. Ah, back to my lesson!

Crisp,cold snowy night

Last night about 10, it had finished snowing and the moon was shining brightly. I couldn't resist trying to catch the image of tree branches on the soft, sparkly snow. My camera has a setting for slowing down the speed without too much distortion. Seems there could be a story here.....