THEN SINGS MY SOUL: LOOK FOR ME AT JESUS’ FEET

Look For Me at Jesus’ Feet
sung by the Booth Brothers
Lyrics found at allthelyrics.com

Look For Me At Jesus Feet

I

IF I LEAVE THIS WORLD OF SORROW
SOMETIME BEFORE YOU DO
JUST LOOK FOR ME IN HEAVEN
AND WE’LL TALK THE LONG AGES THROUGH
BUT IF AT FIRST YOU FAIL TO SEE ME
LET ME TELL YOU WHERE I’LL BE
THANKING CHRIST MY SAVIOR
FOR SAVING A WRETCH LIKE ME.

II

BUT IF YOU SHOULD REACH THAT CITY
BEFORE MY TIME HAS COME
PERHAPS YOU’D LIKE TO GREET
WHEN MY RACE DOWN HERE IS RUN
JUST WAIT FOR I’LL SOON BE COMING
ACROSS LIFE’S MISTIC SEA
I’LL TELL YOU NOW MY BROTHER
JUST WHERE TO WAIT FOR ME.

CHORUS
DON’T WAIT NEAR THE GATES OF PEARL
DON’T WAIT ON THE STREETS OF GOLD
DON’T WAIT BY THE WALLS OF JASPER
NOR AMONG THE MANY SITES UNTOLD
FOR THE PRECIOUS HOLY ONE TO SEE
AND THERE I’LL BE THROUGH THE COUNTLESS AGES
WAIT FOR ME AT JESUS’ FEET.

THANKFUL THURSDAY

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

Mary, Did You Know? written by and sung by Mark Lowry and Buddy Greene

CHRISTMAS SPIRIT AWARD 2008

Thank you to ~hon~ for giving me the Christmas Spirit Award.

These are the rules for this award:

“You must be a true Christmas lover to receive this award. The person to whom you give the award must also be in love with Christmas. Link back to the person who gave you the award. List 5 things that you love about Christmas. If you can’t limit it to 5 things, then keep going till you run out of space! Pass the award along to as many people as you like. That can be 1 or 50. It’s up to you! But keep the Christmas cheer going! Let your recipients know that you have tagged them by leaving them a comment. Also, link back to the person who gave you the award.”

• The most important thing about Christmas is the reminder that God loved us so much he sent Jesus to us.
• It is always great to see family members that we only see about once a year.
• Going to “The Kid’s” place for Christmas dinner and not having to cook is neat for me.
• Being reminded of Christmases past with those who are no longer with us is a good thing.
• I used to get tired of the Christmas Carols and tv shows after a couple of days. Now I am enjoying Christmas movies and listening to the carols, especially “Mary, Did You Know?.” I can listen to it over and over.

Now I’m going to break the rules by not directly passing this on to anyone. But if you’re a Christmas Lover, please grab it and leave me a link to your list.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE ! !

FRUGAL WAYS ON THE FARM: LAUNDRY

When I was growing up on the farm, we had three sets of clothes:

• Our Sunday clothes – the newest ones that we only wore to church and other dress up occasions. Of course, we weren’t allowed to be rowdy and get dirty at church, so we took them off as soon as we returned home and hung them back up.

• Our School clothes – the ones that were our Sunday clothes previously.

• Our Every-Day clothes – the ones that used to be our School clothes, a little worn, a little faded but still had plenty of wear left in them. These were only worn at home.

When we first moved to the farm, we didn’t have electricity or a washing machine. So even though I don’t remember it, I’m sure my Mom did the laundry in a wash tub using a rub board and her homemade lye soap.

The water had to be carried from the well or the branch near the house and heated for laundry day, which was once a week. Whether washed by hand or in the wringer washer, all the clothes had to be hung on the lines to dry. Mom never owned a clothes dryer.

Before we had electricity, the ironing was done with the sad irons. [We still have Mom’s sad irons.] In my pre-teens, I started doing all of the family ironing, which included pillowcases, table scarves, and all the clothes for 4 of us [except underwear]. By then, we had an electric iron. I enjoyed ironing, especially if it got me out of mopping the floor or washing dishes. The Faultless starch always made our clothes look nice.

Back then, our frugal ways were not a choice, but a necessity.

LOCAL POLICE REPORTS

These are actual police reports published in our local weekly newspaper:

• A woman advised that her mail carrier had yelled at her on the previous day about her allowing people to hunt on her land and how it was scaring off the elk. She said that the man said he worked for the conservation department and that he was going to turn her in to the sheriff’s department. She also said that he threatened to shoot her dogs.

• A caller advised of a property-line dispute and that his neighbor had painted all of the caller’s fence purple.

Small town news is great!