good afternoon dear ones!!!!! the weather cleared and we got to make the trip to see my sweet Momma and that always does my heart and soul good, just to lay eyes on her. she's doing pretty good. she just keeps plugging along and God keeps helping her. to that, I say, amen and amen. Lord, please keep blessing her daily and I'll always praise you for that.
when we got back home, I fixed a bite for a very late lunch and it's was good and will be just enough to push us thru till suppertime. woohoo!! yup, you guessed it, eating is our favorite past time. it must be, that's all I ever talk about. hahahaha that's ok, we all eat.
I had gotten the baguette pan sometime here back and forgot about it and finally dug it out and used it. it worked well for the minis and I'm sure it will work equally well for large full sized hotdog buns. for these, I took the dough for 1 regular bun and made 2 of these mini hot dog buns.
and this is the faux bagels, they turned out equally well.
I will be doing both of these again and I'll try to remember to put bagel seasoning on the bagels. I was going to, but got overly happy and excited and forgot to put the seasoning on them. hahaha oh well, what can I say. it's all good and they are good for sure.
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so today we pick up with Exodus chapter 32. are we familiar with the golden calf? this is where that story is. just as I was reading this and doing a little journaling, the phrase "outta sight, outta mind", popped into my mind. Moses was getting the law from the very hands of God, the people knew what he was doing, and if was for their benefit. but they wanted something tangible to worship!!!! something they could see. let's not be to harsh with them, because we do too. oh we act like we're all good and all that, but in reality we want something tangible to worship. a cell phone, a tv, a car, a boat, a favorite place to belly up to the bar, a favorite place where we do ungodly things and I could go on and on. Aaron was second in charge and it's staggering at how easy it was for him to oblige their request. verse 24 where Aaron says that the people gave him their earrings and jewelry and he threw it into the fire and out comes this gold calf, just cracks me up. it's so like something a child would say and yet Aaron said it. he was well up in years. but we do the exact same thing!!! everyone wants to blame everyone else for their sin and no one will step up and own it. debauchery, sin, sexual sin, drunkenness and every other evil and vile filth that you can think of is what they was doing at the foot of the mountain where God was. with great sin comes a great cost.
chapter 34 is where God made His covenant with Moses and the Israelites. they will be His people. although they are obstinate, He will still lead them but He warned them against making covenants with the pagan people in the lands that He was giving to the Israelites and not worship any other gods for God is a jealous God. Moses face shone after spending time in the presence of God.
next we have the tabernacle (dwelling place for the presence of the Lord) being constructed as God had already given the instructions for that. they was going to start work on that now. for me, this is where I actually learned that if I have a gift, it's from God. it's not of anything that I could ever do on my own, it's strictly from God. He is the one that gave all these artisans the skill to build and make all the fine and delicate items for the tabernacle. so, if you have a gift, thank God for it. at the end of Chapter 39, we see that all the workmen did all the work for the tabernacle and all the items in it and all the priestly garments to be worn by the priests just as the Lord had commanded and after Moses inspection, he blessed them.
chapter 40 finds the Israelites setting up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. it was in this tent, where the glory of the Lord would settle and Moses or anyone was not allowed to enter the tabernacle when the presence of the Lord was in it. the presence of the Lord was with them all throughout their journeys.
next we start in Leviticus.
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well, that's about all I have today. I hope and pray that the sun has been shining where you are and that you got to enjoy a little of it today. it was nice and sunshiny on the way to and from my Momma's today. so we enjoyed that a lot. I pray that you have a blessed rest of your day and that peace, warmth and mercy be yours in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. hugs and love, patty
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