Welcome to my "Open Window"...a place of hope, encouragement, and adventure as we journey down the road from "Closed Doors" to the new opportunities God places in our pathway. I hope you will take the time to go back and follow the trail of mixed blessings and fears, failures and triumphs from the past and side-trips in the present. Perhaps it will conjure up some of your own special memories, and be an invitation for you to share with others. I look forward to spending this time with you!
What Do You See Outside YOUR Open Window Today?
Remember: "When God closes a door, He always opens a window!" You never know what might be out there waiting for you!
Just a quick note to say hello this morning! It was a foggy start to the day.
It's not too bad out there right now, (actually I just looked again and it is starting to rain) but we are supposed to start getting some colder weather again tomorrow morning. We'll start having some high 30's for lows and mid 60's for highs for the next few days. But then it will warm up again mid week to 50's and 70's. Typical November weather!
This will be her first Thanksgiving, and she had a lot to learn about it so she wanted to share it with you!
We are going to a potluck luncheon today at church, our monthly "Agape Lunch", which is primarily a time for fellowship and good food, and sharing God's love with one another.
"Agape (from Ancient Greek ἀγάπη (agápē)) is a Greco-Christian term referring to unconditional love, "the highest form of love, charity" and "the love of God for man and of man for God".
I am taking a new dish I found on the back of the macaroni box. It's a "Skillet Taco Mac", but mine will be in the crockpot! (Sorry the recipe looks a little wrinkled...I had to rescue the box from the trash! LOL)
Here's how it looks right now. I'm thinking it needs some Paprika on top for color. I'll let you know later how it tastes...
I guess that's about it for today. I mainly wanted you to know that it's a beautiful day and
I am very thankful to be here!
God is good...all the time, God is good.
I hope and pray you are having a good day today as well.
Thank you for being here too!
Bye bye for now.
Gotta get a move on or we'll miss the potluck lunch!
It's November already! Wow! October sure flew right by us like a rocket ship out of control.
Even Halloween kind of caught us off guard, because our town told the kids to go trick or treating on Saturday night, Oct. 30th, instead of Sunday. Unfortunately, no one told me!
However, with "Lily Grace's" help, we got the little packages of candy ready to pass out as quickly as we could and had a great time watching the children parade up and down in front of our house...
Yes, Lily was a great helper. She wore her Brownie Scout uniform for her costume, mainly because Mommie never got around to making anything else for her, but it served the purpose and she was quite happy all the same...
She had some assistance from Mr. Jack O'Lantern:
I wish I had thought to take more pictures of the cute little trick or treaters who came to our door, but I was so busy passing out candy I forgot, except for this one interesting dune buggy thing that kept changing light colors...
I thought that was pretty cool, but prayed the kids on the back of it didn't fall off...
Some of you may have already seen this great discovery on my Facebook page. From a distance I thought it was some kind of Halloween decoration beside the road, but as we got closer to it I realized it was only the "Ghost of Christmas Past."
Yes, I passed up on this great "bargain", which was left there for the garbage collectors.
Ha Ha Ha.
So, I wanted to thank you all for your kind words and prayers for me on my last post. Praise God I am feeling so much better, and was even able to go to church on Sunday. I especially wanted to go because it was Pastor Appreciation Sunday and we had a pot luck dinner after church.
Here is our wonderful pastor and his wife. Very special people that we love dearly. His wife Carol is also our worship leader/choir director...a very busy and talented lady, and a good friend.
I love this plaque that our UMW ladies gave to the Pastor:
I was so happy to be able to attend the dinner, although I am still having some difficulty with swallowing and it was a bit frustrating to see so much wonderful food and not be able to fully enjoy it, but I needed the fellowship more than the food.
Here I am on the right, and my good friend, the "other Pamela" is in the middle, and another dear friend, Lisa, on the left.
My kids Benton and Rose were also at our table, as was my hubby, but he was busy being the photographer in place of me, so he didn't make it into any of the pictures!
Here are just a random sampling of some of the pictures of our dear church family, enjoying this special time of fellowship and TOO MUCH food together!
As is the case in any church across America, we all have great cooks and we sure love to eat!
Always a joy and blessing to spend this time of fellowship together
We are blessed with some of the sweetest and best...
And the most fun too...
It was a great way to honor our pastor
As an added blessing, the church presented my hubby with this very nice card, as a way of honoring him for his many years of service in the pastoral ministry. He was truly surprised and blessed, as was I. We were not expecting this, and it was very humbling and so nice to be thought of in this way.
Wow! That truly brought some tears to my eyes. So glad I persevered and made it to church!!
Also, in case you are interested and want to follow along with Sunday's message from Colossians 4, here is the video:
Back to the present:
This morning I had a follow up visit with my Primary Care physician, and everything was declared to be looking good. I am feeling a bit better every day, and my appetite is getting better too as my throat heals and I am able to swallow better. I was shocked, however, that the scales did not show that I had lost any weight over the last week...I wonder what they put in that Titanium brace installed in my neck? Maybe it was really made of lead...oh, I hope not...that would not be good. LOL.
I think this picture from my November "Country Seasons" calendar (by John Sloane), is a fitting way to close out today's post...
Psalm 42:1
"As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So pants my soul for You, O God."
I am very very thankful for how far the Lord has brought me in this healing process, and I just want to give Him praise! And thank you all again for your kind words and prayers.
I am still trying to stay caught up with you all, but as soon as I think I've read them all, there's another whole bunch of new posts to read! You are a wonderful, but prolific group of writers! LOL.
