Wednesday before Sunday

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a wonderful day in the neighborhood, early with my hot & black I watched a dark storm cloud approach from the east, completely cover the sky, and pass quietly on leaving a light blue sky with a few wisps of clouds. 

Temp was 79° earlier while it was yet dark as Wednesday shifted colors and got underway, temperature now rising, and the humidity is my favorite Florida salt muggy. 

Breakfast on 7H porch, a lettuce and coleslaw salad with bits of broccoli, Linda's ranch dressing. 

The electrician may come today, or more likely tomorrow, to do all the work reconnecting our renovated kitchen plus several other items - - a faulty kitchen overhead light, a faulty dining room light switch, the electrical outlet here on 7H porch that hasn't worked in years. I could do some of those things myself but Linda says It ain't no way in Heck. 

Heck is the place people go whose only sin was profaning the Christian Sabbath by thinking bad words on Saturday or Monday, the day before or after Sunday, the Lord's Day.

Anyway, kitchen electrical work today or tomorrow, and the replacement dishwasher is scheduled for delivery tomorrow. I'd ordered a white dishwasher, but it went backordered with no ETA so I changed to the same model but with a stainless steel front, which is in stock at The Appliance Center. 

Why the sparse salad? Last weekend while Ray and family were here from Virginia I over-feasted and this morning have three pounds to lose before my doctor appointment this coming Monday morning, 4 August. Between the coleslaw and the FuroForty I can do it, no worries.

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But a reader is expecting a word of Good News from the Holy Man, so here's the Gospel reading for the upcoming Sunday:

Luke 12:13-21

Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me." But he said to him, "Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?" And he said to them, "Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one's life does not consist in the abundance of possessions." 

Then he told them a parable: "The land of a rich man produced abundantly. And he thought to himself, `What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?' Then he said, `I know what I'll do: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, `Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.' But God said to him, `You fool! This very night your life is required of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?' So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God."

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In Matthew 6 there is a line in Jesus' "Sermon on the Mount" where he says, "19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 

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I will be sappy and say my treasure is people in my life, they know who they are, and indeed they are where my heart is also. But treasures in heaven? I'm leaving that to the divine will as expressed and experienced in the nature of creation, the Universe.  

RSF&PTL

T89&c

 

 in th.