Postby Elizabeth » Mon Oct 16, 2017 12:07 pm
Good morning! I don't have an apron, so I will have to get the attitude. The weekend was mostly a raging success! Two friends volunteered to help with party cleanup and my kitchen, LR, hallway, and guest bath look amazing. Master bedroom and bath still need work. Sewing room is a disaster, but has been declared done. The only thing left in the yard is sweep the porch, I forgot about it. DD15 was out camping with her dad.
I created a financial fiasco for myself. My mortgage and credit card are with the same company. Guess who sent her mortgage payment to the CC account (which had a zero balance)! Fortunately, I discovered this before the grace period ended (today). The problem is I found it Saturday. I wanted to simply pay the mortgage with the credit balance on the card, but they only accept bank account payments. While I understand it is normally a terrible idea to pay mortgages with credit, my reasoning was obvious. If I could have talked to a human, it would have probably been done. Instead, I had to pay from my savings account, which is now < $100 and request a refund from the credit card. The entire fiasco will cost me $6 in the end, but in the meantime, my cash on hand is dangerously low.
Because I had people over on Sunday, I did not make church. I did go to Sunday school because we are deciding our next study. I wanted input on that, because I do not need a "women's' study" which focuses on relationships with other people, especially on relationships with men! I probably need a study for teenagers focusing on what am I supposed to do with my life.
Sunday Night Sinners was supposed to restart last week, but the pastor's son's hospitalization took obvious precedence. I didn't find out that this week was cancelled. Another couple had the same problem. While we waited, they told me what the next topic is. We will be looking at Rob Bell. Another one of those universalists. I don't understand why our pastor spent so much time, effort, and money to theological school to become a Methodist minister when he wants us all to become pan-theistic universalists. HE wants to continue in HIS OWN Methodist strongly influenced by Southern Baptist beliefs, but wants us to ditch our "outdated non-inclusive" teachings (you know, the ones from Jesus). Why? I could leave SNS, but I really believe I am called to bring attention to the threat to our church and the church as a whole. I am not a pan-theist and do not wish to become one and if you pastor a Methodist church, you should expect to find Methodists there. Inclusion is an idol if we have to abandon Jesus to achieve it.