~ Penny Girl

The winter storm that dropped two feet of snow
on the Rockies two days ago
blew in about nine-thirty or ten this morning.
And the temperature dropped 20 degrees
in half the number of minutes.
Actually, it dropped thirty degrees altogether,
but I’m not sure how fast that was.
Our poor old thermometers can’t keep up.
I think we need a digital one if we want to observe
these marvelous phenomenons.
Eighty-two degrees yesterday,
forty today.  Now our front windows
are frosty (they face north), and my sister moved
all our potted plants around to the back deck against the house.
Winter is here!!!  Just in time for Christmas!
Shelly and I will put up lights tomorrow–we always wait
for December and cold weather,
although, why anyone would voluntarily choose the torture
of being stuck in the cold wind to hang Christmas lights, is beyond me…
but we always seem to pick the coldest day and now it’s tradition.
(I just can’t see hanging Christmas decorations in hot, humid weather.  We are not Florida, after all.)
At least we will be justified in the amount of hot cocoa we drink. 

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  2. Uh huh….you got that right!  I just posted some pics of our area today….what a difference a day makes??  how about 10 minutes!?  haha!  Hey…thanks for the acknowledgement on those lyrics!  Gotta look that one up!

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  5. It is supposed to be 31 here today with 20 mile per hour winds…it was 75 yesterday…I wish it would make up its mind!
    Sorry, long comment ahead.
    Wow, you know how to ask a guy a hard question! I think that we do just celebrate greed and call it a different name in the American church, for sure. Do I believe it is wrong to have money? I have to be careful how I answer that. Biblically, I think its like the rules on alchohol. It is not a sin to drink, by letter of law,  but I have never met anyone who had an accurate perspective on their own ability to hold it and how much it truly affected their behavior. To me, wealth is sort of like that. It is not Biblically wrong, but I personally never met anyone who had an completely accurate perspective on how it affected them in relation to others and the way they live. I know some people who do a lot of good with their wealth…two families from our church come to mind, as do the founders of Chik-Fil-A who tithe/give 90 percent of their income and live off 10. I know many who would never consider helping out people less fortunate than themselves because they think the others don’t have it because they didn’t “work for it.” Never mind that in 1st Corinthians , when the church there is showing favoritism to wealthy people, Paul asks them “what do you have that you did not recieve?” obviously suggesting that it is only God who decided what they had and which of them had it.
    In short, do I think its wrong to be wealthy ? Not necessarily. Do I think one can serve God and mammon? Definitely not. I think it is a sin to find your security and identity in it, though. That is what those shady TV preachers you mentiones prey on in their constituents…I mean congregations. Also, just for a major dose of almost K.P.Yohannon like perspective to consider, the head of donor development at the ministry where I worked told me a couple of years ago that people who make minimum wage in America make more that, get this, 90 percent of the population of the rest of the world. This would lead me to belive that living off 2 or 3 hundred thousand dollars a year or trying to learn to be Donald Trump on TV could be considered a bit excessive by God. Especially considering that He fed Elijah with ravens flying up and bringing him bread and with a magic flower jar that never ran out.  And the wealthy guys in the Bible (Abraham, Solomon, Job, the rich young ruler who spoke to Jesus, the rich man with Lazarus) don’t seem to have fared too well because of their wealth…just a thought.

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