Watcha doing?

[Cloudwalker]

Please be praying for me tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon.  Our churches music program is preforming a concert.  I will be appearing as Santa and will be singing 2 solos.  One with the choir, What's Going On At Bethlehem.   and one by myself, Merry Christmas With Love.

[tango]

The weather report/warning for our area is speculating 81 inches of snow over the next 3 days... wow!

I don't know that I'd want to live in that, but I'd love to see it.

[RabbiKnife]

Would appreciate your prayers for Mrs. RK’s mom.  Mom (who finally moved in with us this summer) will be 92 in February.  In great health and very active… was blowing leaves in the yard last week.

Well, she fell in her bedroom Saturday night and broke her hip.  Surgery later today and then probably a week at a rehab facility which will be worse for her than going to jail

appreciate your prayers

Her name is Nancy .

Thanks

[Fenris]

appreciate your prayers

Her name is Nancy .

Thanks

May the Almighty grant Nancy a complete and total cure to all her ailments and bless her with health and blessings and long life.

[Cloudwalker]

Would appreciate your prayers for Mrs. RK’s mom.  Mom (who finally moved in with us this summer) will be 92 in February.  In great health and very active… was blowing leaves in the yard last week.

Well, she fell in her bedroom Saturday night and broke her hip.  Surgery later today and then probably a week at a rehab facility which will be worse for her than going to jail

appreciate your prayers

Her name is Nancy .

Thanks

Praying 🙏

[Cloudwalker]

Yesterday afternoon went very well.  Had fun afterwards.  Stopped by a local convenience store for a drink.  In full Santa suit, of course.  Surprised a family with several kids.  Picture resulted, of course.  .

[Slug1]

Would appreciate your prayers for Mrs. RK’s mom.  Mom (who finally moved in with us this summer) will be 92 in February.  In great health and very active… was blowing leaves in the yard last week.

Well, she fell in her bedroom Saturday night and broke her hip.  Surgery later today and then probably a week at a rehab facility which will be worse for her than going to jail

appreciate your prayers

Her name is Nancy .

Thanks

Hey brother, will be praying for your mom.

[tango]

Would appreciate your prayers for Mrs. RK’s mom.  Mom (who finally moved in with us this summer) will be 92 in February.  In great health and very active… was blowing leaves in the yard last week.

Well, she fell in her bedroom Saturday night and broke her hip.  Surgery later today and then probably a week at a rehab facility which will be worse for her than going to jail

appreciate your prayers

Her name is Nancy .

Thanks

Can do.

[tango]

Spent some time yesterday rejigging my home network.

My laptop is elderly - it dates back to the time when having 802.11g on a laptop was considered bleeding edge, but the wireless router was in a distant part of the house so I sometimes got a bit of lag when video streaming. Now I have three routers, one of which is six inches from my laptop and connected with a wire. Although my laptop is old it supports gigabit ethernet (also bleeding edge for a laptop, when mine was new).

I ran a speed test and even through my VPN it was clocking 460Mbps download speed. I'll take it, given I pay for a 500M internet connection. I'd never really considered my laptop's wireless being such a choke point but I just uploaded a few dozen megabytes of files and didn't need to wait for it at all.

At some point I'm going to need a new computer but this one has done me well for so long I don't feel like buying something new that's built to fail.

[RabbiKnife]

Update on mom’s surgery..

Surgery went great.  Surgeon said everything was perfect

She’s back in the room and talking up a storm.  Eating jello and chicken broth

No pain

Came out of the anesthesia perfectly.

Thanks for all the prayers and encouragement

[Cloudwalker]

I spent the morning getting honked at, waving, and posing for pictures.  Our choir had a concert at one of the local nursing homes.  They wanted Santa there, my alter ego.  Unfortunately my car is in the shop.  Not a  big deal.  The church is within walking distance, we always carpool, and I don't mind using the busses.  However, that had me walking around dressed as Santa.  A situation geared to draw attention, and getting picture requests.  We stopped at McDonald's afterwards and I ended up posing with most of the staff.  If I minded I wouldn't go around dressed as Santa.  And I love making a kids day when they encounter Santa unexpectedly.

[RabbiKnife]

Update on mom’s surgery..

Surgery went great.  Surgeon said everything was perfect

She’s back in the room and talking up a storm.  Eating jello and chicken broth

No pain

Came out of the anesthesia perfectly.

Thanks for all the prayers and encouragement

And now she’s home… came home Wednesday and is doing great!!!!

God is really so very good.

[Athanasius]

Thinking about counterfactual knowledge.

Say you were to pray for God to show you what your life would be like if you didn't struggle with A, B, C, or if X or Y didn't happen, or what have you. And, instead of being merely shown, you were dropped into that potential made actual. I think you'd find yourself to be a stranger, and would destroy the life you now have in search of the one you left behind, for all of its associated ills.

And that's just one set of counterfactuals. I think a person would go insane. But God knows all of the counterfactuals, and that seems to me to be a terrible burden.

I wasn't thinking of Picard while thinking about this, but that's a pretty solid example (TNG S6 E5, "Tapestry").

[RabbiKnife]

Agreed

I think we seldom ponder the idea that choosing to create mankind has cause Gid unspeakable unfathomable pain, yet He did so knowing the love He would be able to demonstrate

Thankfully, God handles sanity better than we