Normally, I like to ponder things to write about here and give you one main thought to consider with me. Today, I thought I’d share some random thoughts in no particular order.
For the record, I’ve never been a fan of this time change. It takes a full week to recover, but this year we noticed that Kody and Kaelee were simply not having this. Do cats get frustrated? I think these two do because their eating schedule is not on their timing. It’s not fun when you hear Kaelee screaming because Kody is chasing her. Thankfully, they are past those few days of angst…until spring, I suppose.
I know, I know…for lack of a better topic in awkward situations, we talk about the weather. I only bring it up here because my weather app is predicting our first snow of the season this Sunday. But they keep changing the days that it might snow and how much we could get. Chances are, we will end up with nothing. I’m not complaining because it’s rather early for snow, but it would melt a few days later anyway, so I’m almost in the mood to see the beauty of a world blanketed in white. But I wish I knew why the predictions keep changing.
Not my favorite subject or yours, I imagine. Maybe it’s my age, but so many of my friends are suffering right now with some kind of pain. I have it too, so I get it. Still…I hurt for those who hurt. Of course, there is physical pain and then there is emotional pain. They both touch us in different ways and are equally hard to bear. I’ve been thinking a lot about Job lately. I wonder how many of us can relate to him on some level.
Sometimes my friends and I do our best to solve the world’s problems in our phone conversations, but, alas, we never quite do. Even when you know how the story ends, that doesn’t mean you can tell how it’s going to get there. When I look at the things happening around the globe, I see chess pieces moving into place. God is allowing both good and evil people to fall and rise in power. He is fulfilling prophecy and preparing the day for Jesus to return. Honestly, I can’t wait. He will solve the world’s problems, which is definitely out of my grasp.
I’m nearing the end of my third draft of my work-in-progress. I have a feeling that I’m going to need a few more drafts. This is a difficult story with the darkness of demon-possession in it again. But the woman in the story gives me much hope. R.C. Sproul once said of her, that she “was so committed to the rescue of her daughter that she simply would not take “no” for an answer.” I like that. I pray that way for people I love.
For my first books, I didn’t have too many difficult-to-pronounce names. Or if I did, the narrators thought they knew how to pronounce them. But lately, I’ve been asked to send a recording in with the pronunciation of the names in the story. This week I received such a request. To check my own accuracy, I found a translator website to pronounce Hebrew names. I printed the list and wrote down how to say the names beside each one. For instance, Rina is pronounced Ree nah. Or Hadar is Head are. It’s amazing that I got any of them right before I asked!
I’m looking out my window at our resident family of sandhill cranes. They travel as a family until the colt (child) is able to be on its own. We’ve watched the colt grow from tiny in the spring until nearly full grown in the fall. Recently, the teenager got his/her leg caught in fishing wire and a lure last week. We worried that it wouldn’t survive. When it showed up in our yard, I felt so bad for the creature that I prayed that God would help it. A few moments later the doorbell rang. Neighbors who heard that the crane was in our yard came by asking to help. They caught the crane in a blanket and held it against our fence while the other one cut the wire. It was free! It still limps, but I see improvement each day. God answered that prayer quickly!
The calendar is quickly filling for holiday gatherings. Yours too? We decided to attend a symphony of Handel’s Messiah for the first time ever. Holidays are never the same for us, though they are usually quiet. I wish our family lived close by. Traveling by plane this time of year is hard. Still..
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~Selah
