Jonah

Our Sunday School Class has been studying the book of Jonah.  I've known the story of Jonah most of my life but I learned a lot from this study.  Jonah really wanted God to destroy the city of Nineveh.  He must
of hated the people there.  They were wicked people, but God still loved them.  Jonah didn't want to preach to them so he went the other way but you can't run from God.  Jonah must have preached harder because he didn't like them and maybe that was why God chose him to do the preaching.  He was mad because they repented and God didn't destroy them.  Why did Jonah stay there?  Was it because he  wanted to see God destroy the town?  Then God sent the worm to destroy the plant that was shading Jonah and he was mad again.  So God told him that he didn't do any work to get the plant that was shading him.  God ask him why shouldn't God care about the great city of Nineveh.  The Bible doesn't tell us if God ever got through to Jonah but He did get through to me.  There are people that I've held things against but studying Jonah has taught me that God loves those people too.   There are things that you just have to let go.

Earrings

I was putting my earrings in this morning and I thought about the time Debbie ask her Dad if she could get her ears pierced.  He said "If you get your ears pierced you'll have to get your nose pierced.  You never heard of that back then.  Later years he'd have never said that because people were actually getting their nose pierced.  I've seen people with their nose pierced and thought, what would you do if you had a cold and had to blow you nose a lot.  Yuh!  Even though her Dad didn't really give his permission, she got her ears pierced anyway.  Not too long after.

False Teeth

I've lost my upper jaw teeth.  I've been going to the dentist to replace them for over three months.  I never thought it would take this long.  Next Tuesday I should get the partial.  I'm not really looking forward to that day.  The last time I was there the dentist put the partial in my mouth with teeth but not the permanant ones.
It felt awful.  I thought I'll never be able to eat with this.  I couldn't even talk plain with that junk in my mouth.  I never expected it to be this hard.  I thought it would be a good thing.  Will I ever get used to something like that in my mouth?  I can't chew food without jaw teeth and I'm so looking forward to being able to eat things not being ground up.  I thought when I got them, I wouldn't have to go back except to
get my teeth cleaned.  The dentist said I'm getting them the first of the week so I'll be able to go back right away if they make my mouth sore.  I hadn't even thought about that.  I must have been dreaming thinking that I could just put them in my mouth and everything would be great.  This whole process seems to be taking aas long as it took for me to get the teeth I used all my life.  I hope finally they'll work as well as those did.

Battles

I was reading the bible this morning, reading the story of David and Goliath.  David said "the battle is the Lord's".  It made me think back over my life and I thought about the battles I tried to win on my own.  One I tried for many years on my own and never won.  When God came into the picture, He won it for me.  Just depend on God, his battles are never lost.

The Tea Kettle

I was taking my shower this morning and washing my hair and I thought about how we did that in the fortys.  Living on a farm with no indoor plumping, nothing was modern.  Baths were not daily.  Did just a wash pan of water get you that clean?  I don't know but that's all we had.  You couldn't turn on the faucet and get hot water.  You had to heat it on the stove in the tea kettle.  Come to think about it why did we call that a tea
kettle?  You didn't make tea in it, you just heated water in it.  It set on the stove always filled with water and if you used all the hot water and didn't fill it back up, someone was going to be mad.  Today tea kettles are obsolete but they were inportant things back then.  We wouldn't have had any hot water if we didn't have a tea kettle.  I bet you would have found one in every house.

Rainy Days

There's an old song by the Carpenters entitled "Rainy Days and Mondays".  Today is a rainy day and it's Monday.  It made me think of that old song.  Rainy days do always get me down.  I like to see the sun shine, even though the farmers are wanting rain because our water table is low.  But couldn't it just rain for a short time and the sun come out.  Yesterday was a rainy day, tomorrow's supposed to be a rainy day.  Winter in Southern Illinois is always dreay.  I'm so ready for Spring.  I want to see the sun shine and the flowers blooming.

Vitamins

When did vitamins get so large?  I used to take one a day vitamins and they were little round capsules, not hard to swallow at all.  Now the doctor expects me to take two calcium pills a day and they're huge.   When I was carrying my children, I took those every day and I don't remember having trouble swallowing them.
Now when I take one I'm not sure if they're going down or if I'm going down because I've choked to death.
I try to take fish oil capsules and they are the same way.  Way too large.  Is there a company out there that can make some small capsules that we need to take.  I wish but apparently not.