{"id":125,"date":"2008-10-30T11:36:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T16:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2008-10-30T11:36:35","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T16:36:35","slug":"thankful-thursday-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2008\/20081030-125.htm","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Today I&#8217;m thankful&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>For my bosses being sick<\/b><br \/>\nI was feeling much better by the time work rolled around yesterday (Thanks for caring).  The office was empty when I arrived at 3&#8211;and a quick look around failed to reveal the assistant managers.  So I grabbed my normal Wednesday papers to copy and ran downstairs to make the copies&#8211;only to find that the door was locked.  I ran back upstairs to ask Janet what was going on&#8211;and she informed me that both assistant managers and the secretary were at home sick, &#8220;so if you don&#8217;t mind, you can manage tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>If I don&#8217;t mind?<\/i>  You better bet I don&#8217;t mind.  I love managing.  I would do it every time I worked if I could.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just too bad that their pain is my gain. <\/p>\n<p><b>That the &#8220;Best By&#8221; Date on the milk doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s bad<\/b><br \/>\nI bought a gallon of milk a week ago, when we a little less than a half gallon left.  Unfortunately, the &#8220;Best By&#8221; date was yesterday and we didn&#8217;t go through it anywhere near as fast as we had been&#8211;Casandra had a cold so she wasn&#8217;t drinking much milk and I hadn&#8217;t made yogurt recently.<\/p>\n<p>But thankfully, the milk was still good.  Maybe not for drinking&#8211;but I still enjoyed in my oatmeal this morning, and as oyster stew for dinner.  And after dinner, I made some quick cottage cheese.  Yummy!<\/p>\n<p><b>That I remembered today that my health program planning paper is due tomorrow<\/b><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think I would have liked being <i>surprised<\/i> by that one tomorrow as I&#8217;m trying to get my costume in order.<\/p>\n<p><b>That I&#8217;m finally getting somewhere on my seminar<\/b><br \/>\nIt was driving me nuts!  How many useless studies must I read before I can come up with something worth mentioning?  But now I have some good solid direction&#8211;and I&#8217;ve even got stuff down on the computer.  I&#8217;m down to two weeks now&#8211;but I think I might actually be able to make it.<\/p>\n<p><b>That there&#8217;s a sale on iced tea at the Kwik shop down the street<\/b><br \/>\nThursday&#8217;s my errand day, and I forgot to get the bottles of tea I need for our research project while I was at the grocery store.  So I ran into the Kwik shop, grabbed the most convenient choices and went to check out.  The cashier put down her cell phone and, with a &#8220;just a sec&#8221;, walked across to a different case and pulled some coupons off the wall.  Two of my choices had 50 cent off coupons.  So I bought four 20 oz teas for $3.50&#8211;which isn&#8217;t a bad deal if I do say so myself.  <\/p>\n<p><b>That the weather was gorge-o-u-s today<\/b><br \/>\nI went for a fifteen minute walk this morning&#8211;and had to ditch my coat halfway.  I took another walk with my roommate this afternoon&#8211;with no coat needed. I sat on a bench in a sweet little hideaway by the Home Ec building in the hour between classes and read my Bible.  I closed my eyes and drank in the sun, enjoying the wind rustling the paper-crisp leaves.  I contemplated being still.  Not an action but a state.  Being still.  Knowing God.  So many loud voices about&#8211;a fire (truck full of buff guys), a whirlwind (of papers and assignments and projects), the (rumblings of a political) earthquake&#8211;but God&#8217;s voice speaks through a gentle whisper.  A fire that warms and awakens and enlivens&#8211;the sun.  A breeze that brushes me with awareness of His presence.  The hum of His Spirit empowering me to carry on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m thankful&#8230; For my bosses being sick I was feeling much better by the time work rolled around yesterday (Thanks for caring). The office was empty when I arrived at 3&#8211;and a quick look around failed to reveal the assistant managers. 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