It’s not exactly difficult to realize we’re getting toward the New Year is it?
Everybody has it in their mind that Winter begins on December 21 … and ordinarily that would be true. But according to the OFA (Old Farmer’s Almanac) the sun crossed the equator – effectively moving from the northern hemisphere to the southern at 12:30 AM *today*… i.e. 30 minutes into December 22 (Today! At least it’s *supposed* to do it that way. And for this kind of stuff I think the OFA has a reputation of some length to maintain so I tend to figure they’re correct. They’ve certainly been at it a LOT longer than I have.
Meantime –
Yeah… yeah… I know… things get busy at Christmas – but if you were going to be ‘docked’ by the hour minute or day… you’d be certain to get things done when they are supposed to be done!
Well… it’s too close to Christmas to be playing Scrooge! (L) Let’s go on to more pleasant things. --- One of the ‘unpleasant’ things that hit me Wednesday morning was that my blood glucose level (blood sugar) was out of tolerable range for me by about 15 points. We’ll see if I can pass up enough holiday sweets to get it back down in range.
Meantime I took a walk in the drizzle yesterday with one of my grandsons and my dog … He’s the smart one in the family I’m referring to my grandson … Smart on computer stuff and cars and things. So I find him a neat companion when we’re just battling drizzle… Yesterday wasn’t too bad for the battle… and I guess it’s doing us good climate-wise. Too often we tend to get crispy-brown over the summer weather sometime – and it takes a lot of rain for all the lakes to recover. But that’s the ‘way the cookie crumbles’ I hear. I also wonder who it was that thought up that slogan.
I hope your Christmas cookie isn’t crumbling.
I’ve found a very good cure for crumbling cookies. Submerge yourself in. say, the book of Job… and read it all the way through. [You can do it in less than an hour.] You’ll come out feeling a whole lot better! I think the Lord put that story in our Bibles so we couldn’t say something like, “I’ve got it worse than anyone!” You can’t seriously read the book of Job –especially right at Christmas time and think you had it worse than Job. Well… I won’t try to convince you today. (Tomorrow maybe – (J)
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack & Barbara
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“JUST A MINUTE”
THE VISIT OF THE MAGI – THE WISE MEN
Just a Minute: Today we learn of the Wise Men’s arrival in our holiday series.
When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
He gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, and demanded of them where Christ should be born.
They said unto him, In Bethlehem of
So he sent them to Bethlehem, saying: Go and search diligently for the young child and when you have found him bring me word again that I may come and worship him also..
When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. -- And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him:
And when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, frankincense and myrrh.
And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
<> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)
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