June Reflections

 

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We Had No Spring

Around here the consensus is that we went from winter to summer. We had drought conditions until the 11^th of June. We received a gentle slow rain. God blessed us with what we needed. Had some tornadoes at times.

Reading

I started re-reading, disciplines for the inner life by Bob and Michael Benson, a devotional book that actually gives the reader worship services: an invocation, a scripture reading for each of seven days, a selection of quotes-actual readings from different Christian authors, each week. The book is divided into topics-one sub-topic a week, on disciplines a Christian may need to develop. This book has 52 different sections, each focusing on disciplines to improve our relationship with God.

I have had this book for several years. This time I am “spot reading” it. Going back to the sections that seem to speak to me, telling me what I need to work on.

Journaling Scriptures

Each day, I try to read a scripture and journal about what it says to me. I had some information come to me that caused me heartache. I actually shed tears over what I discovered. I emailed some of my writer/blogger friends and asked for prayer and some verses of scripture that might help me deal with this issue. I have used those scriptures to help me through this time.

Scriptures on Writing

One of the blogs I read had a posting entitled “21 Bible Verses to Pray for Your Writing”. I selected certain ones of them to journal in order to improve my skill.

An Unexpected Unplugging

I was uploading some blog posts to my computer and wanted to save them to a disk. That didn’t work. I emailed some writer/blogger friends about my problem. One suggested I use a thumb drive.

I posted the blog posts to my Blogger page. Two days later, I try to access the Internet and could not. I did a word document, intending to print it out for our pastor’s wife. But my printer would not respond . A phone call to my carrier took an hour and still did not answer the problem. Our son was coming home for part of the weekend (Father’s Day). When I told him what was going on (or not going on), he said he knew what it probably was. He does a certain amount of IT work in his job. When he got the computer issue taken care of, the printer started on it’s own.

Blog

I enjoy writing my blog. Last month, I chose to write about a Biblical passage rather than a verse. It was rather long but I received a lovely comment from one of my readers.

Church Fund Raiser

Each year in June, our church holds a Rummage Sale as a fund raiser for funds for special projects. The Trustees and the Missions Committee co-sponsor this sale. The Wednesday evening supper lady holds a bake sale and serves breakfast and lunch to raise funds for the Wednesday night meals. I went over to the church on Friday to have lunch (sloppy joe, potato chips and a soft drink.) Someone had donated Italian Sausage, as a choice. The last I heard, the proceeds for the rummage sale were three times last years figure.

Hymns

From time to time I have had hymns come to my mind and “play” for lengthy times. This had not happened for quite some time. On Sunday, July 2, I woke up and had the hymn “Stand Up Stand Up for Jesus” go through my mind. Now, please understand, July 2, was our first Sunday as a new church. We joined a new denomination this spring, July 1, was the effective date.