Be Still and Know...Then and Now

then don’t say nothing at all I am taking a break from my bible study prep for my Wednesday class, my coffee maker has a flashing red light on it indicating that I need to run a cleaning cycle, the refrigerator needs to get a good cleaning out, the dog needs to go to the vet to get his nails trimmed, I need to take the car to the shop for an oil change and tire rotation and the bathrooms need to be cleaned. So I have decided that rather than attending to all those wonderfully simulating situations I have opted to make a latte and work on a blog post. Never let it be said that I can not place all things in there proper perspective when really pushed to the edge. I had a situation happen this morning, hence the title of my post! If you can’t say anything nice then don’t say nothing at all, well this morning I made a error in judgment. Not a long lasting error and one that was easily corrected but still if did get me to thinking about the true nature of people. It really was a very s...

  So what did y’all do this morning! Well, It was pouring down rain. I sat listening to the rain, warm and dry in my jammies drinking my coffee. I nearly convinced myself to stay at home. But my civic duty won out. I put on my husbands red shirt (red is the Save the Library campaign color) grabbed my red umbrella and headed out the door this morning to exercise my first amendment right. You see the economy has taken a very sad toll on our community. The library board (in an unpublicized meeting and unscheduled vote) has voted to close our local library. This library is less than three years old and is a beautiful multi-million dollar facility with-in walking distance of my house. It is centrally located between the middle school and the high school. The land for this facility was actually donated by two retired Gwinnett county school teachers who taught in the dacula schools to be use for the purpose of building a library for our city. My DD is an avid reader so we are re...