Monday Noon

Greetings to all!

Praise the Lord! God has given us another day to serve Him, to glorify Him. What shall I do with this day that will enhance His kingdom, use His grace and love, bring Him joy, and all the other things that we humans see as GOOD? That’s a good question, is it not?

My answer so far is that it is Monday, “my day off” which I do not protect near as much as I use to when I had someone to spend it with, so the morning is usually my “wash time”. Oh, that is so much fun, three or four loads of washing. But you know this morning it came to me that there is one way that I could cut back, at least every other week or so, and that would be if I just changed the sheets on the bed around and slept on the other side. Now doesn’t that sound like a good idea? If I am only sleeping on one side of the bed, then the sheets on the other side of the bed are clean, so if I turn them around I have clean sheets and do not have to wash them every week. That seems to me to be a great idea. It also seem to me that that would be good stewardship of time and raw materials, water, soap, etc., and would even save some wear and tear on the sheets. Why didn’t I think of all of this earlier????

This after noon I have a meeting and a couple of appointments. So I hope that I can glorify God better than I have this morning. My meeting is the Community of Character steering group and what a joy that will be. Praise the Lord! They are such a good, hard working group; not only by keeping the program going, but moving it ahead for the year + that I was not able to be involved. Yet we are always in need of new people and new ideas. We also really need some work done that almost anyone can do, and that is distribution of our material. This has been one of the hardest things we have had to do. So if you and/or anyone you may know would be interested I encourage you to contact me or Lori in the mayors office. This is a great opportunity to glorify God because of the things we are trying to do are character traits that God has given us and wants us to develop and use.

In our daily life, we do not always know exactly what we will be doing, but we do know that the time for serving God is always present. Praise God!!! What a great verse that is to keep in mind and to use to evaluate and prioritize what we are doing.

I have to bring this to a close, but I also need to say that I hope you all had a positive and meaningful Thanksgiving Day week-end. Mine was positive as both Friday evening and yesterday I assisted the Sheriffs Office with some critical situations – an auto crash, a homeless family, and a critical illness. I can only hope and pray that those that I came in contact with could feel God’s presence, grace, and love through me in their need, and I thank and praise God that the officers were appreciative of my efforts. Praise the Lord!

And finally, I want to say that two weeks from today there will be a blood drive in memory of Marty. Over the week-end I went through the figures for the entire year that Marty had AML and she had to have 307 units of blood during that time: 37 units where whole blood and 270 were platelets. I have said from the beginning that I was going to do all possible to get those replace for the American Red Cross. Blood was there when we needed it and I hope it will continue to be for others. So far I know of 86 units that have been given in honor or memory of Marty. This leaves a need for 221 which I hope we can get on the special drive in memory of Marty on Monday, December 10, 2007 at the old firehouse in Peru and on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 during the regular December Peru blood drive at the Parkview United Methodist Church. I will put more information on the blog later or you can call the church and we will give it to you. Please pass the word and save the date, if you can give blood, it will certainly be appreciated. I know how grateful I am to the 307 people who I do not have any idea as to who they are, but they allowed Marty to live for another year. Praise the Lord!

Got to go, (the dryer just finished again), take care, be careful, be positive and God bless.

Jack
Romans 8:28