Good Things

GOD SPEAKS TO US THROUGH HIS HOLY WORD:

30 I went past the field of the sluggard, past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment; 31 thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins. 32 I applied my heart to what I observed and learned a lesson from what I saw: 33 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest - 34 and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man. - Proverbs 24:30-34(New International Version).

GOD'S PROMISE TO US FROM HIS HOLY WORD:

2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. - 1 John 3:2(New International Version).

A QUOTE:

The Holy Spirit is a powerful Person in our lives - even though we can't see Him. - Bill Crowder -

THOUGHTS TO REMEMBER:

How much you know matters less than how much you care. - From Reminisce Magazine -

If a fish escapes, it was a big one. - From Reminisce Magazine -

To love God is to obey God. - From Our Daily Bread -

LOOKING BACK IN MY LIFE:

This time I will write about some wild animals that we encountered when I was a boy growing up on the farm in the Great Depression. The opossum was hunted in winter. The open season for hunting opossums was from December 1 to January 31. We would skin the opossum and cure and sell the fur for extra spending money. There was never much money during those days on the farm. I remember one summer I saw a mother opossum with several babies on her back attached to her tail. The cottontail rabbit was hunted in the winter for food. I remember running the rabbits into a hollow log and reaching my hand into the log to pull them out. (I was told that my father was bitten by a Copperhead Snake by reaching his hand into a hollow log. He cut little gashes in the teeth marks and sucked the blood and poison out and spit it out. Apparently he didn't suffer much from the bite.) The rabbits were not eaten in the summer. Perhaps because some of them had warts on them in the summer. The squirrel was also hunted for food in every season to the year. A squirrel would have to be shot with a gun because they would climb trees and had a terrible bite if handled. Many times the squirrel would escape into a hole in the tree. The skunk was also hunted for their furs. Our family never hunted skunks because of the odor that they emitted that was almost impossible to get out of clothing. We had to hunt and kill some animals during the Great Depression for food and additional income. I do not kill animals now although I do eat meat.

NOTES:

Today has been partly cloudy with a high temperature of 82 degrees. I had lunch with Charley. I went to the post office. From the post office I went to Walmart for my weekly supplies. I took a nap and when I awakened Rascal was on the bed with me. I thought that I would just lie there a little while and pet him but I went back to sleep and slept quite a bit longer. I put treats outside for the cats at around 6:15 p.m. and sat with them for a few minutes. I appreciate each one who reads the Good Things and sends an email.

The cats are fine. Lucy is in the floor near my feet. Rascal is on a desk near me and Smokey is on his tv tray. I have seen all of them this evening.

Have a nice Wednesday. Everett