Small Group
Last night was my first small group meeting on the Strobel book. All couples, but three of us, two widows and me. All had grandchildren but me. I like the group because we are all middle aged and except for marital status at about the same place in our lives. You have to be serious to dig through the Strobel book and these folk have done some thinking. I was encouraged, too, because all had actually read the required readings. So often in these groups, folk look at it as a social event, and don't do the reading. I want to re read the first chapter because I was tired when I read it the first time. Its an important one about the argument of How a righteous God can allow suffering. I think I got my thinking confirmed in this. I discovered that as a single without children, my world view is a little broader than the those with children, who are more concerned about individual crimes against humanity. I am most touched by genocide, whereas the lady next to me was more upset about child abuse. This will be a good group.
Hot and tired
I had to turn on the air conditioner today. I guess that is OK. I was very tired, probably because I did not sleep well last night. I have those nights sometimes. I chalk it up to being older. Probably had something to do with being hot too, although it wasn't that hot last night.
TODAY however if different. I think it reached 81 today, and when the sun gets to the side of my house it gets really hot.
Little Things
I felt guilty for being so tired. Didn't get a lot done. Read a little in the morning, and emptied the dishwasher and put the dishes I left from last night into it. Made a big pot of coffee, and talked to the neighbors and watered my poor outside plants. It seemed like summer outside. Very humid. Somewhat hot. Dumped the cookies I bought for last nights small group into the trash, because I am not supposed to eat them, and having them there caused me to eat them anyway, which may be an explanation better than being hot about why I had such an unproductive morning.
Work on Libraries on the computer
Anyway, the afternoon was different. I got up and closed all the windows and made a big glass of fat free, sugar free vanilla iced coffee. It was great! Then I actually started inputting books from the SCSAG library into the Filemaker data file again. This is something I have not done for quite a while. I found most of my entries were for books that I question the cataloging on, so I clipped them so I can look for them the next time I am physically there. I gave up after an hour because I had plenty of cards to take to the library on Wednesday, or Tuesday, and I need to work as I go. After dinner, I think I will work some more on the Librarything online data base, which is a lot more fun. Then, there is laundry, and perhaps more anti clutter work to do. Whatever. The phone just rang. I really don't want to see people today, so I was glad when it turned out to be an "Arizona" call, which is usually a telephone solicitor from one of the groups I support, but who hire people to phone me anyway. That kind of activity bugs me. Sometimes I think if they hire fundraisers to bug me that they don't need my money, but when I ignore them, I don't have to know. If their message is important, they will leave one. The talking caller ID upstairs is a great help.
Last night was my first small group meeting on the Strobel book. All couples, but three of us, two widows and me. All had grandchildren but me. I like the group because we are all middle aged and except for marital status at about the same place in our lives. You have to be serious to dig through the Strobel book and these folk have done some thinking. I was encouraged, too, because all had actually read the required readings. So often in these groups, folk look at it as a social event, and don't do the reading. I want to re read the first chapter because I was tired when I read it the first time. Its an important one about the argument of How a righteous God can allow suffering. I think I got my thinking confirmed in this. I discovered that as a single without children, my world view is a little broader than the those with children, who are more concerned about individual crimes against humanity. I am most touched by genocide, whereas the lady next to me was more upset about child abuse. This will be a good group.
Hot and tired
I had to turn on the air conditioner today. I guess that is OK. I was very tired, probably because I did not sleep well last night. I have those nights sometimes. I chalk it up to being older. Probably had something to do with being hot too, although it wasn't that hot last night.
TODAY however if different. I think it reached 81 today, and when the sun gets to the side of my house it gets really hot.
Little Things
I felt guilty for being so tired. Didn't get a lot done. Read a little in the morning, and emptied the dishwasher and put the dishes I left from last night into it. Made a big pot of coffee, and talked to the neighbors and watered my poor outside plants. It seemed like summer outside. Very humid. Somewhat hot. Dumped the cookies I bought for last nights small group into the trash, because I am not supposed to eat them, and having them there caused me to eat them anyway, which may be an explanation better than being hot about why I had such an unproductive morning.
Work on Libraries on the computer
Anyway, the afternoon was different. I got up and closed all the windows and made a big glass of fat free, sugar free vanilla iced coffee. It was great! Then I actually started inputting books from the SCSAG library into the Filemaker data file again. This is something I have not done for quite a while. I found most of my entries were for books that I question the cataloging on, so I clipped them so I can look for them the next time I am physically there. I gave up after an hour because I had plenty of cards to take to the library on Wednesday, or Tuesday, and I need to work as I go. After dinner, I think I will work some more on the Librarything online data base, which is a lot more fun. Then, there is laundry, and perhaps more anti clutter work to do. Whatever. The phone just rang. I really don't want to see people today, so I was glad when it turned out to be an "Arizona" call, which is usually a telephone solicitor from one of the groups I support, but who hire people to phone me anyway. That kind of activity bugs me. Sometimes I think if they hire fundraisers to bug me that they don't need my money, but when I ignore them, I don't have to know. If their message is important, they will leave one. The talking caller ID upstairs is a great help.
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