Without going into a lot of details let me just say that the last few weeks have been "interesting" and I've really been through it - but I had to go through it to get to where I am now - which is a very good place. God and I have really been having some heart-to-heart talks and I'm still working on some things that need to be taken care of - but we'll get there.
The jean saga has come to an end - sort of. I finally convinced myself that I had to deal with the "new waist" which is really slightly above women's hips and found one pair that I can tolerate. I only bought one pair because I've lost some weight and I'm not sure if I'll stay at this weight or gain some pounds but no matter what - I HAD to get a decent pair of jeans. All my jeans (even at my old weight) were kind of baggy in the behind area.
And because of how this pair of jeans "rides" on me - unfortunately I had to buy some new undies. I'm sure some of you are SO glad I shared that - but I think some ladies can relate to all this. First - why is it so hard to find a six-pack of undies, in the right size, in the right cut, that are all white? I don't need wild colors or patterns - just give me plain white and I'm good. I'll wear the wild colors and patterns on my outside clothes thank you. But no - no plain white in the style I thought would work for my new jeans. At least the six-pack I ended up buying were solid, subdued colors.....................goodness.
Leaves - they are really pretty on the trees but not pretty when I have to rake them up. I had five bags of leaves this week. The only good thing was we had rain one day so yesterday when I raked the avalanche of leaves that fell in the back corner of my yard they were wet so they didn't blow away when I put them in the bag - and I could put a lot more leaves in the bag when they were wet than when they were dry.
My small group at church discussed a project two weeks ago that we thought would be good for the holiday season - and something the whole church could get behind. It's called Bread on the Waters and we presented it today. We are using Ecclesiastes 11:1-2 and Galations 6: 9-10 as our key verses for the project which is a grocery collection. Our goal is to collect enough groceries to fill 18 boxes to give to some families in our church and some families that have visited a few times - to be a help and blessing during the holiday season.
While our small group discussed this project - several of us volunteered to do certain aspects such as: work the display table each Sunday morning, create the tags of food items we need, create the display board for the table, record tags taken and what food items those were for, etc. Our small group leader thought through everything else that needed to be done and plugged all of us in the spots so we know who is doing what.
Barb and I are working the display table each Sunday and we had to set it up during the song service so it would be ready to go after the service. It looked great and I had absolutely nothing to do with any aspect of the table except put things on the table. And the response for our first Sunday was really good. There are lots of items that need to be purchased because we want all the boxes to have the same items in it (2 boxes of Honey Nut Cheerios, 2 cans of beans, 4 cans of vegetables, etc.). So when you say your prayers, maybe say a little prayer for this project too.
And I can't believe I didn't take a picture of the table - where was my head?! I'll take one next week to share with you :)
