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Another Christmas has come and gone. While money was tight, I think everyone came away happy. I was able to put tires on my truck thanks to my parents and still had enough left over to buy a small flip-like video camera. Something to play with when bored.

Sunday we all went out after church to do a little shopping around for needed items, like a mattress that doesn’t sag in the middle. We found a few possibilities, but nothing we were willing to commit to yet. While shopping we stopped at a local flea market to browse.

While there I found an eMac that was in very good shape. They wanted $75 but he went down to $50, so that was a deal that I couldn’t pass up. It’s really quite nice and it gives me something to do my work on while the girls continue to kill the windows machine. It is capable of working with my photos and videos, slowly but not as slow as the windows computer.

I am planning on doing more photography this year, even if it’s only for me. I just need to get out and create, I think that will lighten my mood considerably. Got to go, need a nap after taking my meds then on to some chores!

Usual Sunday stuff from there on eat, nap, and realize that winter finally made its ugly appearance. Now it isn’t significant by any means but for this time of year here it is odd. I guess we got about 3 inches of snow but with the wind what it looks like is an inch here and a few feet there. I would take pictures but it’s dark out and the neighbors really frown on my flash going off in front of their houses at midnight. Maybe if it’s still there in the morning I will get some of it.

Oh, here’s a link to my Facebook post about the church service along with a video of the skit our youth performed. If you don’t want to go to that much effort, here’s the video itself.

Did I mention that I am getting my disability? Did I mention that God really does answer prayer. Too many really awesome and slightly out of left field things have happened over the last three days. I found out Monday that my disability had been approved, Tuesday I found out there was more to that than expected, Wednesday I got a check in the mail that I never expected to come.

Like I said, the last three days have been amazing and slightly overwhelming. I was glad to go to my prayer meeting Wednesday night, it is always enjoyable to share with my church the prayers that do get answered.

So while I am sure there were multiple people involved with getting me my disability, I am giving all the credit and praise to God, He is truly amazing. Alright, that’s all for the moment. I really need to get some rest.

Once I got going though it was alright. I got on a roll and finished on deadline. There have been some changes since I last used HTML also, why do they have to mess with what I know?

Anyway, it killed a week and now I can go back to being bored!

That was followed by quite a bit more lounging and drifting in and out of consciousness. Had a light lunch with Anna followed by some vigorous TV watching. After that we went to pick up Desi from school came back home and waited for Becky to get off work.

Out for dinner at Pizza King, yes that is what I picked for my birthday meal this year. From there we went to our church prayer meeting then back home and sent everyone off to bed. That leads us to this point, my whole day in a nutshell!

Now I am going to lie here and toss and turn for a bit.

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Front door of a local church. seemed like a good idea at the time.

Today we laid to rest a Godly man and a great friend.

Jim was always working to further the kingdom of Christ, he had no off button when it came to that. He loved the Lord and he loved helping others. It was Jim who brought me back to Christ some years ago. He got me in church by inviting me to their Easter egg hunt and breakfast. I have been in that church ever since.

Last year, when he first became ill, we went to visit him in the hospital. We brought him some fruit and had a nice chat. As we got up to go, he asked us over so he could pray FOR US. The man is in the hospital, no one at the time knew for sure what was wrong, and he wanted to pray for us! Ask anyone who knew him and they would repeat this as well. It was in his nature to pray for people, even in his own weakness.

⁹But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. (2 Corinthians 12:9 NIV)

Thank you Jim for what you have done for me and countless others. Thank you for reintroducing me to the glory of Christ. Thank you for the fun times we shared.

See you at the gates!

Now begins the long arduous task of sorting through the photos and retouching any that need it. Hopefully there won’t be as many in need of help as last time. After all we were in an actual church this time instead of a gymnasium.

Thankfully, I actually knew someone at this wedding. It makes it a whole lot easier when you know who to go to and ask questions.

I will throw you all a bone here. This is one of the groom and his groomsmen. They were acting like mannequins, while it doesn’t play out as well in the actual photo, it was hilarious at the time!

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Back to work now!