Love Bade Me Welcome

The weather has continued it's irregular pattern.
The ice melted just in time for aninch of snow
Friday, which is now practically gone due to the
current temperature of forty degrees fahrenheit.

Ummmm, what have I been doing? Wednesday was my
small group's annual Olive Garden Christmas party
which was terrific fun. They put us in the
farthest, most secludedcorner they could find -
the girls made some reference to being almost kicked
out last year. Ha. We had a naughty Santa gift
exchange and I was quite glad to get rid
of my jewelry holding figurine thing [something
like the pic below] that was so frustrating to
wrap.



Last Thursday we went down to the Red Cross to
get certified as volunteers. Basically they
just gave us a run down on the Red Cross policy
and did background checks on us. Yesterday my
sister and I went down to one of the big shelters to
volunteer for a couple of hours.


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"Love Bade Me Welcome"
-George Herbert

Love bade me welcome, yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-ey'd Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning
If I lack'd anything.

"A guest," I answer'd, "worthy to be here";
Love said, "You shall be he."
"I, the unkind, the ungrateful? ah my dear,
I cannot look on thee."
Love took my hand and smiling did reply,
"Who made the eyes but I?"

"Truth, Lord, but I have marr'd them; let my shame
Go where it doth deserve."
"And know you not," says Love, "who bore the blame?"
"My dear, then I will serve."
"You must sit down," says Love, "and taste my meat."
So I did sit and eat.

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"Once again, we come to the Holiday Season,
a deeply religious time that each of us
observes, in his own way, by going to the
mall of his choice." – Dave Barry

I quote this with mild gloating at you
people in a certain familiar town who have
fewer ways of "expressing themselves" than
others. Haha, there's a mall about the size
of yours near us, commonly regarded as "a
minuscule speck of a thing that no person
would ever willingly enter." They all go
for the ten story models with city limit
signs and population counts as you enter.


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