I txt'd my daughter and SIL yesterday morning and asked if they would take my car to Auto Zone and have the battery checked. They came up a bit after 10AM and did so - and yes, it was the battery that was going bad. Hallelujah! Auto Zone couldn't fix it then, so the SIL brought it back home and mentioned a AAA Repair place just down the street. Well, I AM a AAA member.... so they dropped my car off there and 30 minutes later I was notified it was ready for pick up. So glad the battery is replaced and my life hasn't been stranded in anxiety waiting for it not to start to get it completed. And, although I usually take my car into the dealership for the oil change, although I know it is much more expensive, when I inquired at AAA Repair, they will do it for less than $40 - I usually don't get out of the dealership for less than $400 by the time they insist I need other things done, and me not knowing any better, get it done. I think it's time to start going elsewhere. My car is a 2017 so it isn't like it is a new car or anything. And I only have 47K miles on it so things shouldn't go wrong - unless it is from age. That battery lasted 7 years for I can't find where we replaced it after I bought the car in 2019.
I have a new project to crochet. I'm hoping to find another easy pattern to try with it. I think I mentioned (or it might have been some I erased recently) an unmet friend, a friend of my sister's, whose siblings were breaking into her home and stealing things from her.... well, she discovered this week that they also stole the afghan I had made her for Christmas last year. She was in tears and didn't want to share it was stolen, but she finally did. No problem. I'll make her another. But I want to make it different, and better, than the first one.
Lots of erasing going on here this morning. I'm trying to get better about my ramblings.....
Dinner tonight at our neighbor's house. They didn't want us to bring anything, so we will be having chicken pot pie that she is making. I hope I like it enough not to make faces. LOL People have gone on and on about the chicken pot pie at Cheddars. Well, one time we were there and I decided to try this 'delicious chicken pot pie'. Naw, it isn't for me. I did not like it and didn't eat even half of it, I don't think. Maybe I ought to try my hand at it sometime. I think it is more that they don't put enough vegetables in it and there is too much dough. Will see how our neighbor makes it.
Think I'll get hubby to go to Einstein's for breakfast this morning - I still have my birthday bagel sandwich I haven't gotten yet. I was thinking about cooking, but that bagel sandwich and Einstein's coffee sure does sound good right now. Yeah, after I finish this, get dressed and you know hubby will want to go. Food is his favorite activity. LOL
Hubby got his first shot for his metastatic prostate cancer yesterday. He wanted me to meet him at the doctor's office, but with my car acting up (before I got it fixed), we decided that I had better not try it. It only took 5 minutes for him to get the shot; but he has been so anxious about it for some time. Anyway, I told him that since I couldn't meet him at the doctor's office, (now that my car is fixed), I would take off work early and we could go for a late lunch. He liked that idea. We went to Fazoli's. They were out here before but closed up - found a new opening at 58th Ave & Peoria. We went in and I had signed up for their rewards app - so we even got $5 off our order! We dined in. Mind you it was about 2:30-ish and it wasn't crowded at all. We ended up waiting about 20-25 minutes for our orders (him spaghetti with no meatballs, me baked spaghetti with meatballs), they kept apologizing and brought us a chocolate chip cookie, which I immediately opened - and then they brought our order. Wow. Their spaghetti beats out Olive Garden! The sauce was so good; even hubby was raving about it. I couldn't eat all of mine (huge portion for us), but hubby did. I brought the rest home - 'guess what is for lunch?'
I read in a devotional this morning.... "prayerlessless is the first sign of prideful independence'. We quit praying. Whether it is quit spending time with God, quit thinking about God, or even just quit praying over our meals - we are saying to God "we don't need you"; "we can do this in our own power"; "we can do this better than You can".... how can one even think that they don't need God? He has the answer for everything! Everything we have - although you may think you have 'earned' it - was given by Him. He blessed you with it. A home, a car, decent health, family, friends, and more - all these are a gift from Him. We have become such ungrateful people that we have pushed God out of our lives, out of our homes and are now dependent upon ourselves and others to provide for us. We have our hand out for more - but we never seek Him for what He wants to give us. Do you not realize how much more our Heavenly Father wants to give us - but we just have to ask for it??
Sometimes my heart is so grieved over my children and grandchildren turning away from the God they know. They have their reasons, they say. They didn't get their way; God didn't respond how they wanted Him to. So they quit on Him. But you know what? He has never quit on us. He is still here, waiting on us to reach out to Him. His answer may still be no, or not yet, but He is always there for us. Why don't we reach out to Him to give us the peace we so long for inside of us! We may tell others we are 'Christians' - but a Christian is a Christ-follower - and if they live their life in such a way that betrays His name, how can they be a Christ-follower? We see posts all the time on facebook of people who claim to be Christian, and yet, they use ungodly words, they post untruths, and they want people to feel sorry they have to endure such people. Woe to them, hypocrits! Jesus even called out the Pharisees and Sadducees for the words and actions they used.
Oh that our words and our actions will always glorify the God who created us, Jesus, whose crucified life saved us, and the Holy Spirit who fills us with His Presence! We are a wicked people, desperately in need of a Savior, and Jesus is the only One who can fill that role.
Our friends and family are not our Savior. Money is not our Savior. Jesus is the only way to the Father, and it is in Him we must build our faith and our lives. Oh that we all would take that to heart and swallowed our pride of self-sufficiency and surrender to the only One who can save us! We must go through Jesus to get to the Father.
Choose Jesus today. Please don't delay. We do not know how much time we have left on this earth. Our end could come by health issues; by accidents; by anything.... are you ready to meet Jesus face to face and be judged by Him who knows all? Everything you do, everything you think, is known by Him. We can not hide anything from Him; He sees and knows all. Are you willing to surrender your life to follow Him and be blessed by Him? Oh that you might! Oh that you would ponder that thought and soften your heart to give Him the glory only He deserves!
Blessed are those who seek after Him; for they shall see His glory.
Blessings!
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