Would You Deny For Others What You Demand For Yourself?

Happy Memorial Day!!

I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend! I'm thankful because my husband and I both have the day off ... yay for three day weekends! ; )

My husband has been slaving away in the backyard redoing our fence in the backyard, as our wonderful dog, Rocky, has been known to jump the fence when she sees something exciting. Along with that, she likes to bark at just about everything that goes by so as to prevent her from jumping the fence and barking at everything, we had to make the fence higher. Thankfully, he got the fence all done ... woo hoo! So we don't have to worry about Rocky jumping over anymore. Thanks, Honey, you're the best!! : ) (Here's him chillin' on the hammock that he also put up. It's been in our garage forever and I forgot we even had it!)As every Sunday morning, we went to church. Our pastor has been doing a series on "Jesus The Storyteller: Parables in Luke" and it's been really good. Yesterday was on "The Rich Man & Lazarus", which is the parable that this song, Crumbs From Your Table, is about. He talked about how Jesus calls us to pay attention to that person you see everyday who people ignore, detest. The kind of people who somehow seem to have gotten picked last in the game of life ... to regard that person as our fellow human being, not as someone insubordinate to ourselves, someone who doesn't matter ... It really hit me hard thinking that, really, if not for where I was born, who I was born to, that could be me. If I had been born in a different country, or to a different family, that could be me sitting there on the street with no food, no place to go, no money, no hope. As the U2 song I mentioned earlier says, "Would you deny for others what you demand for yourself?"

Last night we decided to have a pizza, ice cream, movie night because we haven't had pizza in awhile! So, we stopped at Papa Murphy's and got a Chicken & Artichoke thin crust pizza. I had three pieces (and it was very good!). For ice cream, we had Skinny Cow mint ice cream sandwiches. It was a fun night. Random in the truck, driving down the road picture: Hope you all have had a great weekend! And if you didn't see it already, please check out my recent review of Amazing Grass here ... I was impressed!

"You save yourself from selfishness when you give to someone who cannot repay you"
-Brian Zahnd-