Let not the soil of your indoor plants be too wet lest they rot at the roots, for a drunkard soaks his innards and gets unwell. Let a wise man read the Bible daily; the fool thinks there has no need and misses out on grace. Rinse your plates before placing them in the dishwasher, for dried food sticks like bad habits. Don't curry favour with the ungodly; maintain your peace and they may come around to your way of thinking. If God seems to leave you alone, be patient, He has a reason. Better to run your heat pump on high and pay a bigger bill than be cold and have money in the bank. Visit the grave of your relatives and pray for them; for one day you may need their prayers. A fool visits a loved one's grave and shuffles his feet not knowing what to do; the wise man says a rosary for that person. Those who chatter and laugh before and after Mass are like people at a restaurant who don't think about what they are ordering.
And when you are painting your bathroom dont be like the foolish man who uses neither skim coat nor under coat. You must apply several coats of these and sand thoroughy. Let your final coat be of pure white and mould resistant; for thus too must be your soul.
Its 6.30. No I didn't feel an earthquake. I read about tariffs. Cadbury chocolate imports cocoa that may use, to harvest, child labour. Is that slave labour? Was that good sentence syntax?
"The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, to give his life as a ransom for many". Mat 20:28. Nothing wrong with that; some might wonder who the Son of Man is. "I thought Jesus is the Son of God". I guess He is both. Did you know that Sirach is written by someone called Jesus? Son of Eleazar, son of Sirach. What's going on there? Maybe Jesus wrote what his granddad used to say.
The last thing Sirach said is "Work at your tasks in due season, and in his own time God will give you your reward". Sirach 51:30. Hence the saying "He has gone to his reward" (when someone dies).
it's 6:50
time for some breakfast
not that I feel hungry
..."and now bless the God of all who's has done wondrous things on earth"..Jesus son of Eleazar, son of Sirach.
"Come back disloyal children-it is the Lord that speaks-for I alone am your Master".Jer 3-14
It was hard to rouse myself out of bed. Most of you are still asleep.
Just put some lanolin cream on my face. My darling L started me on moisturizers. Sometimes I just pick a leave/stork/branch off my aloe vera and use the juices on my skin. More men must moisturize mainly Mondays. That's a catchy sentence so you remember.
Did I mention that I'm feeling wary this morning. No, that's good, 'cause I'm weary. I'm not glancing about anxiously. But my eyes feel heavy.
Enough about me. How are you?
This polite query has always stumped me. I've realized that the proper response is to say "when?". Between the question and the response time elapses so they should really ask "How will you be?".
Better run, still picking up my work mate from misty valley. I'll make a coffee to sip on the way.
Success is not about reaching a destination but enjoying the journey.
We should look after and enjoy our world. 'Cause this is it. Even if there was by some fluke another, we would never reach it.
The nearest star is distant at over four light years. Alpha Centauri. It's actually three. But we only see one. They think there's a couple of planets but these are inhospitable. A big gas giant and one that doesn't rotate so one side burns and the other freezes. There are many hazards out in space. One obstacle you don't hear often is how would a space vessel slow down upon getting there. Slowing down takes as much energy as accelerating. Then there is our need for gravity. Our bodies just stop working after about six months and there is no way to reverse it.
Some people think there is alien life and they visit us in space crafts now. There is a lot of photographic evidence for inexplicable vehicles in the sky. Maybe they are drones that began there voyage here thousands or millions of years ago. Though they probably couldn't send a message back quickly. Nothing is supposed to go faster than light. That's about 300,000 km a second.
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'
[Verse 2]
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point
We go 'round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
etc..
Success is not a destination but a journey; enjoy every step.
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour;
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars;
It's a hundred thousand light years side-to-side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand lightyears thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand lightyears wide.
We're thirty thousand lightyears from galactic central point;
We go round every two hundred million years.
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go--the speed of light, you know--
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger-all down here on Earth.
Had a good weekend? I cut the lawns and took a car load of stuff to the tip. Because I 'recycled' some old electric things I got charged half the normal fee. Off to Wainui soon to pick up the work mate. Thanks for the certificate TC. The Pater Nostre is quite easy. It's that one at the end of the rosary I never mastered...
"O God, whose only begotten son....." then the bit that goes "imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise"... never get that right!
Time to go...
Stars don't compete with each other, they shine together.
