December 29 – “Sports Saturday??”

Ah, Saturday.  Saturday of the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.  What better place to be than … WalMart, of course.  I should be in a commercial for them.  Yes, we did indeed go to WalMart again yesterday.  Not exactly your typical sporting ventures, but it was Saturday at WalMart.  That meant using all of our agility and stamina.  So that should count as sports, right?  We had to make one last visit to the Christmas section to see if the sales prices had dropped below 50% off.  Sadly, they were the same.  And nothing special that just leapt into our basket.  We did pick up a thing or two for next year’s Bethlehem Street Market, though. That’ll be helpful.  Oh, and Chris picked up the first round of ingredients for this week’s cooking marathon.  Josh and his family will be here in a day or two, so the family Christmas is coming soon.

We actually watched a few college football bowl games.  Well, at least parts of them.  I saw where Texas A&M defeated Oklahoma State.  Our worship pastor will be sad to hear that.  And LSU destroyed Oklahoma University.  It was a bad, sad day for our neighbors to the North.  I confess that I didn’t stay up for the last game.  Clemson had just scored in the third quarter to take the lead when I threw in the towel.  I read about it in the paper this morning though.  Seems Ohio State came back and took the lead, only to lose the game when Clemson rallied for one last touchdown.  So the National Championship game will be between LSU and defending champion Clemson.  Should be quite the brawl.

John 1:12 says, “Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.”

Father, Draw those folks to church today who you want to be there.  And please fill me with your Spirit.  Don’t want them seeing anybody but you.  Amen.