Christmas and Such

Well I had a great Christmas up here on A-Corn Hill. It was just Denise and I and we spent our first Christmas by ourselves. The night before we were at Jason and Jocelyn's place along with James and Kim. The night went pretty well I thought thought there was something going on with James. Earlier in the week I had lunch with the Camp Macoba Committee including Harold Sellers who is the current Head of the Madison Baptist Association. Everything went extremely well and we made things official by signing documents. Their enthusiasm and mine were both pretty high about this partnership. I really do feel like this is where God would have us right now and the potential that I see here may only be the tip of the iceberg of what He has in mind ! Also we will be serving at Lighthouse for awhile and that may lead to something as well. I love Randy and would do almost everything for him but I do not understand his insistence on wanting to build. The factors are just not present at Lighthouse for this in my estimation. I don't know how you convince the people there is a need when the numbers are like they are and there is not consistent growth pattern being displayed. I shared my heart with Ron about this the other day and he understands completely. They do not have a good foundation laid in their Sunday School which is critical to moving the church forward and especially something like a building program. I would not bring this up with Randy unless he asked me directly. I will pray about this much in the future. I am getting a little antsy about the web page for the ministry. I know Jason is working hard on it and am sure it will be top notch and I appreciate it so much and have told him so but with the Board meeting coming up in a couple of weeks I would really like to be able to show it to them then. Received a game cam for Christmas and already have some pictures. It seems that the deer were around the RV all night long because each picture is time stamped. Tonight I have set it for 10 second shots of video so we will see how that comes out. This week will really be the test on losing weight. I have not eaten any sugar but I missed a couple of days of exercise and increased my eating. So far for 20 weeks in a row I have lost a pound a week. Tomorrow morning will be the test. We stopped at two of the three houses we consider our neighbors and gave them a plate of Christmas cookies Denise had made and spent a little time with them. They seem to be nice. The other house we pulled up and waited for a few minutes but no one came out. We waited int he car because they have two dogs that do not seem to be very nice waiting outside our car. We are using the RV pump along with the campground water to increase our water pressure and it is working our pretty well...especially in the shower...it is almost a normal shower! I have not been as diligent on my quiet time as I want to be and it certainly shows...too many distractions which is no excuse as God as sure blessed me and my family tremendously. Still have not worked out the interview and book process yet but I will. We will finish up the Christmas holidays tonight with a movie (Night At The Theatre 2) and some popcorn.

A-Corn Hill

Well I have decided to give the part of the camp we are staying in a name. A-Corn hill seems quite appropriate as they are knee deep up here. I know that is not how you spell (acorn) but I spelled it how i will be pronouncing it. Today it is Wednesday and around 1:00 in the afternoon. This is the first day so far I have not seen any deer since we have been up here..but the day is not over yet. The rain is supposed to have been gone by now and there is nothing on the radar yet it is raining pretty good as i write this. All this time I had been waiting on the perfect recliner I found and such a great price. It came on Monday and after an hour I had it put together...it was a piece of junk. You get what you pay for and this was an expensive lesson for me. I tossed it in the burn pile..not just because it was not any good but two of the metal straps were either broke or I broke them while wrestling around with it putting it together. If I was sure they were already broke I would have sent the thing back but I may have broke them. I got all excited but did not do my homework correctly. Further observation on the chairs located in the RV at Reeds camper sales revealed that they were not recliners but what is called a euro chair. Oh well enough about that guess it will be awhile before I get one. I need to get a hold of myself and wanting all these material things lately, it has caused me to veer away from some good habits I had been carefully following. I just finished eating some popcorn and made my first glass of sweet tea in many weeks. I made it with the Truvia and it was pretty good actually. Thanksgiving was good and I have such a great family and extended family. James and Jason spent quite awhile talking about the web page and what was going on there but no one mentioned to me where we are on the process. I don't want to put any pressure on Jason, he is got many irons in the fire and he is really helping me out. We were prepared to start looking at churches with the hopes of finding one that needs some help when Roger announced he was leaving Lighthouse for a church in Arkansas. Matter of fact I had already met with the Pastor at New Market Baptist and we had attended there once when this came up. I thought I would ask Randy one more time just to be sure if He could use our help before we left. It looks like at this point there might be something there. He could use some help administratively. I should know something by this Sunday. I sure will be glad when I am somewhere I can put my whole self into it again. The camp has been winterized as well as our RV. I bought an electric heater to try and off set using so much propane. I love propane heat but we are going through a bottle a week! I have so many ideas about this place up here ! I would like to set aside a day a week where I concentrated on nothing but writing. I would work on my book, journal, send out cards, write notes of encouragement, etc. On the trip down to the funeral with dad it was just normal conversation but the way back was a different story. While the preacher was praying at the funeral service I prayed that something the preacher would say would cause dad to ask questions...to make him think. That prayer was quickly answered as 90% of the conversation on our way home was dad asking me questions about God and beliefs and things he did not understand or necessarily agree with. I answered the best I could and where I did not know the answer I just told him so but said that I had faith in the one I placed my faith in so I just trusted in those situations. I think I will get him a bible for Christmas....probably a New American Standard large print. Well it is time to have an afternoon cup of coffee and do some more around the place...then off to church later.