The New Year

Here it is in your face the New Year.  Gone is the old year a year of political discord, endless elections (still going on), world economic stress, wars, and endless examples of our countries lack of morality.  On a personal note I had a fairly good year.  The garden did very well, I put away lots of food, the kids all did well, and Connie & I still have jobs, not bad.  I wonder when I look around me at all the people I know and come in contact with.  They are for the most part good, honest, hardworking people.  So how is it that the so called leaders and the rich & famous seem so corrupt?  Maybe they need to balance a checkbook, and do some hard work for a change or we need to rethink our news sources, hard to be sure.  I have hope  that this year will bring a better overall outlook.

The New Year has started good Esther & I spent a goodly part of New Years day in the orchard doing some early pruning after we visited a friend of hers in the hospital.  Yesterday we took the Christmas tree down and put the Christmas stuff away.  Connie who went to Ohio to visit with her parents New Year’s Eve got to witness the birth of her 3^rd grandson.  Congratulations to Rob & Adelaide Durkin on the birth of their first child Johannes Martin Durkin born 1/2/2009 @ 6:21pm, 7lbs 9oz, 19” long after 16.5 hours of labor, a hard day’s work for Adelaide.

The sermon today was good it was titled “Now is the Hour” as what is the time in this world on God’s clock and do you have all the ingredients His book recommends in order to meet Him at His soon coming.  It has been a restful day, with Esther doing her usual visiting thing with her friends after Church.  I came home and rested.  I thought of taking a nap but didn’t.  I miss Connie as noted above she is in Ohio.  We talk on the phone frequently but it’s just not the same.