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Awww, Pat!  Too bad you're going to have to give up all those exciting trips to sit there and have your teeth worked on.

My dryer has been sounding strange lately - Gene thought it was a belt getting ready to break.  This morning, with a fresh load of wet clothes, there was a loud thump and the drum stopped turning.  Good thing it was mild and the ground had pretty well dried out, so I could hang outside.     So Gene took the access panel off and discovered it wasn't the belt at all, but the drive belt idler pulley.  Now, you need to know we bought this dryer, rebuilt, in 1993 so I guess you could say it doesn't owe us anything.

Gene went back to the place we bought it, hoping they'd have a replacement part.  No, of course not.  BUT... they did have another almost identical one, rebuilt, of course, for $145.  Since our laundry space is very, very limited the only way we can have a dryer is with a stacked configuration and a new dryer that would fit on top of my front loading washer would cost at least $400.  So we grabbed the rebuilt one and will get it tomorrow.  The Lord is good.

Thank you for the devotional Pat.  I can relate in wanting to take away the load from my tiny daughter.  The constant pain and the hurt she feels when people stand and stare at the slow and painful way that she must walk.  All we can do is trust God.

This has been another sad day.  Wendy & Ralph went to Victoria and I was busy washing clothes, etc.  Then Amanda came down crying, saying that her prize bunnie died giving birth to a baby.  So I found a nice towel, box, etc. and had her hold the bunnie, then put in to rest, waiting for Ralph to dig yet another grave.  This being a resident Grama is certainly hard on the nervous system....at my age!!

Strange thing is that another rabbit has been trying to make a home under the hutch.  We didn't think it was wild as it liked people.  However, was bothering the others.  So trapped it and it now has a home here.  Amanda said it liked to be petted, so must not be wild.  What a day!!!!

Easter dinner went well and everyone enjoyed the ham, veggies, salad , pumpkin pie and whipped cream.  Sent lots home with Ralph's uncle and gave an extra pie and the ham to the kids.  I eat mostly veggies these days.  The good news is that Wendy said we can go to church at the Alliance Church next Sunday.....all things going well.  So consider that an answer to prayer.  I do so long to be part of a church again. 

Ria, thank you for your wonderful posts.  Oswald Chambers is correct in saying that neither natural love nor God's divine love will remain and grow, unless it is nurtured. 

Thanks also to Margit, Papa John and Pastor Al.  You folks really make my day.

Have a pleasant evening everyone and God Bless.
Liz

I read something really cute and it might tickle someone else's funny-bone.....

Written by an eight yr. old boy for his third grade homework assignment.  I will give a short version..

"One of God's main jobs is making people.  He makes them to replace the ones that die so there will be enough people to take care of things on earth.  He doesn't make grown-ups, just babies.  I think because they are smaller and easier to make.  That way, He doesn't have to take-up His valuable time teaching them to talk and walk.  He can just leave that to mothers and fathers.

God's second most important job is listening to prayers.  An awful lot of this goes on, since some people, like preachers and things, pray at times besides bedtime.  God doesn't have time to listen to the radio or TV because of this.  Because He hears everything there must be a terrible lot of noise in His ears, unless He has thought of a way to turn it off.  God sees everything and hears everything and is everywhere, which keeps Him pretty busy.  So you shouldn't go wasting His time by going over your mom and dad's head asking for something they said you couldn't have.

You should always go to church on Sunday because it makes God happy, and if there's anybody you want to make happy, it's God.  Don't skip church to do something you think will be more fun, like going to the beach.  This is wrong!  And, besides, the sun doesn't come out at the beach until noon anyway.

If you don't believe in God, you will be very lonely, because your parents can't go everywhere with you, like to camp, but God can.  It is good to know He's around you when you're scared in the dark or when you can't swim very good and you get thrown into real deep water by big kids.  But you shouldn't just always think of what God can do for you.  I figure God put me here and He can take me back anytime He pleases.

And that's why I believe in God."

Amen to that. 
Liz

What a short day it seems for me since I was away all day.

I was so sorry to read about Amanda's loss, Liz.  Give her a hug for me.


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