Our Weekend

We've had a lovely weekend -- Friday afternoons my Sweetie is always off. We often spend the time running errands but this Friday we stayed at home and we worked on family business items. Insurance, banking, etc. There was quite a lot accomplished.

Saturday morning we mowed, edged, blew, pruned, watered, etc., etc., etc. You know, the things that have to be done when you own a house on a city lot. It has been so dry that things are just gasping for water -- all the lovely green we enjoy has to have a lot of water to keep it that way!
Sure looks nice now, however, so I feel our efforts were fruitful.

After a shower and a little sit-down time we left to have dinner with some friends. It was a good time to chat while eating Mexican food. Later, we found that we had no problem sleeping. We were weary to the bone!

This morning, of course, was church. Our Pastor brought a very thought provoking sermon on bitterness. (From the book of Ruth.) One comment he made was that holding onto bitterness spoils your future, your present, and also your past. He said that bitterness could cause us to re-write our past -- to change it from what it really was by reshaping it to conform to whatever happening we were bitter about -- whether it was true or not.
I know a woman who did just that. She harbored bitterness from something that may or may not have happened to her when she was about 4 or 5 years old and let it shape her feelings well into her 80's. She carried that bitterness around, bringing it out to re-examine from time to time. Once I commented on a picture taken when she was graduating from high school and it gave her pause. "Yes", she said, "that was something nice. Sometimes I forget about those things." She dwelled so much on that one bad incident that she forgot years of nice things that happened to her.

I pray that our Lord will remove any signs of bitterness in me -- If I harbor any, I'm asking that He erase it all and fill the void with love.