Hope

"And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins... If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied."

1 Corinthians 15: 17 & 19

 

I had been looking for this verse for a long, long time...and finally found someone who could tell me exactly where it was. Thank goodness someone could tell me, I was starting to think I was making up bible verses!

 

Heresy! Condemnation! Fire and brimstone! Okay I'll stop.

 

I don't remember why I started thinking of that verse, or why it was significant at the time...but I thought that it was fitting that I stop and reflect on this hope I have in Christ this Christmas season.

 

On moving apartments and other matters...

I've always had an issue with the cabinet underneath the kitchen sink. Maybe I was turned off by the damp, dark, icky unknown. Maybe it was the oniony/garlicky odor that always seemed to linger there. Or maybe it was the undiagnosed dark green/brown/grey patches that seemed to appear in that habitat.

Well today, I put aside that fear and got all up in the said cabinet to uninstall my water filter. 1 hour of cussing, contorting my body, more cussing, referring to instructions, more cussing, trying out different angles/tools/techniques, and even more cussing later, I managed to remove the durn thing.

Okay, so I didn't cuss up a storm. Okay, so I didn't cuss at all. My point is this: if this nursing thing doesn't work out, maybe I'll go become a plumber.