Monday, February 8, 2021 Monday Musings

Here’s what’s rolling around in my brain today:

1. It’s zero degrees outside. On the way home from work I passed an older fellow in a truck with his window partly open. Minnesota hardy! As opposed to someone like me who turns on the car seat heater the instant I start the car.

2. I’m working on a sewing project, another one of those things that looked easy, but due to misdirection and mistakes in the pattern book has been surprisingly difficult. I have had to depend on “The YouTubes” and my seam ripper quite a bit. Has someone been praying for me to grow in patience?

3. My mom has had both vaccine shots for Covid now and I’m wondering if the place where she lives will re-open for visits (most of the residents are getting the vaccine). It’s been almost a year since the place shut down for “two weeks.”

4. I think eyebrows were meant to be ignored. If you start looking at them on people’s faces, they strike you as very odd.

5. It’s funny how we don’t always see ourselves as we really are. Photographs and mirrors are truth tellers. My husband and I were just a little shocked to see how gray our hair looked in the photos from our daughter’s wedding last year. James had it right:

“But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.” James 1:22-24

All too true – it’s our nature to forget the things we don’t want to see, and to hold an image in our mind’s eye that’s not very faithful to the truth. We do, indeed, deceive ourselves.

Ha ha!

This has been Monday Musings with Lynniebee. Thanks for reading.

I’ll probably muse about deleting this post in the morning while avoiding my mirror.