Sunday This and That . . .

 

Todd had just finished watching a really good film called "Rain" on Friday afternoon when all of a sudden . . .  UH OH  . . .  no internet!  We tried everything to get it back up and running again, but no dice .  Our landline phone wasn't working either.  Todd really hates calling customer services.  Who doesn't!!! 

You spend ages listening to canned music, and then you get shifted from one department to another, sometimes you get disconnected, etc.  No fun on a mobile phone either . . .  watching your monthly allowance of voice call time getting swallowed up and wasted on just sitting there!  It ended up that they were going to send an Engineer out "sometime over the next two working days."  We thought . . .  Saturday . . .  Monday (Sunday isn't a working day.) so it would be maybe Monday/Tuesday before we got back online.

I was really bummed, mostly because this is our church's Bi-annual General Conference weekend as well as the yearly Women's General Conference!  I had been so looking forward to both and was really disappointed because we weren't going to be able to watch it.  I  know we can have access to the talks at any other time, but I have always felt that there is a special spirit present when you are watching the talks live.

Well, first thing yesterday morning an engineer showed up and we were back online within minutes. Some wire outside the house in a box had come undone. Apparently, he said, someone had been working on the box switching some such and hadn't bothered to reconnect our wire.  While he was here, he also noticed that our broadband was slow and it should be a lot quicker, so he made a few changes to speed it up. So yay!  We got to watch conference after all!  Colour me happy!

"Disconnect from the World, 

and Connect with Heaven!"

We did manage to get a lot done in the time we had no wifi however, which was a lesson to us in just how much time we have been wasting online!  I believe our time without the wifi was preparing us for the talk given by Brother Stephen W. Owen, entitled "Be Faithful not Faithless."

"In a complex and contentious world where there will the bombardment of relentless messages from social media and news, individuals must deliberately take time each day to “disconnect from the world and connect with heaven.” Just as hay does not provide adequate nourishment for deer, the trending news does not offer true spiritual nourishment." 

When I was listening to Brother Owen's talk it came to me that I always find the time to check my e-mails, etc. but I often don't find the time to sit down and check my "Heaven Mail."  Must do better in that area! 

Yesterday morning while Todd was still sleeping and during the time I normally would have been on here, I did a couple of little paintings in my craft room. This is one of them. I painted everything but the details about my mom.  Those are supposed to be "Forget-Me-Nots."  I also worked on a Christmas Card.  We'll see what happens with that!  

 

I also had the opportunity to babysit Grace for a time yesterday while her mom was at work and her dad was at the gymn.  He's training for some charity sports thing he will be participating in support of the Cancer charity.  Look at those sweet curls!  She has such a beautifully engaging personality and I had a wonderful time with her.  We played and played and played.  Todd remarked on how good I was with little children.  I thought it was very sweet of him to do that.  

I have never been able to spend time like this with my own grandchildren, so being able to spend special time with Grace like this means even more to me.  She is utterly charming. Those big brown eyes of hers just melt your heart.  And her smile lights up the room!

 

Sitting in the chemist waiting for a prescription I was looking at all of the pony tail holder/ties. Things have progressed since the last time I looked. I was sorely tempted to pick up a pack. They were each only £1. But I didn't.  I may have to go back another time  because now I am wishing that I had picked up a couple!

  

I am loving getting to watch the sunrise and set each day and the opportunity we are having to use our candles for some lovely candlelight warm and cosy  . . .  

So if you missed me yesterday, that was why I wasn't on. Just one of those things I guess.  Life is filled with little surprises. Some are good, some not so good, but the way that we deal with them is what counts most of all. 

A thought to carry with you  . . . 

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 *You always have 

the choice to be happy.

Learn to understand

the bumps in the road,

grow from them,

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Nothing new in the kitchen today, but I can share what I had set up to be posted yesterday, and which posted in my absence.  A delicious Raisin Sour Cream Meringue Pie!  

Have a great Sunday. We will be spending time watching more of our church conference.  Don't forget!

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And I do too!