Shopping trip with Annie

It's been a long time since Annie has been with me "alone". She mostly wants someone else to be with her when she stays the night. But this time she asked if she could come by herself. Of course I said yes. She asked if we could go shopping so we went to the mall and I continued our ongoing lessons of how we shop. We look at everything first and then decide if there's something we really want, have the money to buy and then go back to get it. Of course what she wanted to look at first was jewelry. I think she would have a room full of jewelry and stuffed animals and nothing else if she could get away with it. We looked at necklaces, bracelets, earrings (she can't have dangly earrings yet!). She found a couple of things around $290 and said we'd have to save our money for those! We looked at wedding rings and other stuff. Then we found a "treasure box" with a cute pair of stud earrings. She decided to carry those around the store while we looked at everything else. Needless to say, those came home with us and a happy little girl and her Granny.

Priesthood of Christ

When was the last time you studied (or even thought about) the fact that Jesus is our High Priest. We had a very interesting study this morning in our study of Hebrews about it and it got me to thinking. In Baptist theology, we don't "do" priests. So trying to apply a priesthood to ourselves is all theory. We acknowledge the facts that it exists - of course the Bible teaches it - but as far as it having anything to do with us personally - I wonder how many actually know how it operates.

We hear about Catholics who go to confession to a priest, receive "penances" and then go on their way. We sort of don't think that's Biblical. So do we just ignore the priesthood or do we know the truth about what we are supposed to do?

A straw poll: do you regularly appear before your High Priest? If so, what do you do there?

Heading Home

It seems that Wednesdays get longer and longer. I try coming in early and getting stuff done before Awana but still find myself having to do some last minute things for the Bible Study on Thursday mornings. Here I am at 9:25 p.m. just getting ready to head home. I can't leave though until I know I'm ready for tomorrow. Once in a while I forget and think I'll just finish up my Bible study when I get home but something very strange happens when I leave this building. I get into my car and drive out of the parking lot and my mind immediately goes to Ron, my babies, Lindsay, Landra, or something going on in my family. I don't even think about my Bible study again until just before I fall asleep. Not to say I get up to finish it. I think, oh, I'll finish it in the morning. I never do. I just go on with what I've prepared and I'm always sorry.

I'm sure that all of you reading this do everything you should on time and in the proper order. If I did, I'd have my Bible study done on Monday afternoons so that on Tuesday I could concentrate on VBS and Wednesday, Awana, etc. How do you do it? Tell me your secret please!

Take time for a coffee break

Ron and I used to take about 30 minutes in the afternoons to make a pot of coffee, find a donut or Little Debbie's something or other and just connect with each other. I don't know when we stopped it - probably about the time I started working at Westgate and wasn't home in the afternoons anymore. Then he started working his three part-time jobs and that put another kink into our time together. I remember we'd just talk about stuff. Remember things the kids had done, things we want to do, synchronize our schedules and talk about Bible stuff. I think I miss that most of all - talking about whatever Bible study we were doing at time.

I'm glad some of us ladies are studying Hebrews on Thursday mornings right now. Getting back into routine weekly study has been good for me. Reminds me I need accountability and also that there are others who need what this class provides - looking in God's word to find out why we believe what we believe. There are a lot of choices in how to do this. We just decided on Hebrews - the big picture of Christ as Son of God, as God, as Savior, as Lord, as High Priest and as the one who will return one day to receive us to himself. It's been fun. Not sure how much longer it will take.

But it seems like a big coffee break for me during the week - even though we have donuts and Diet Coke.