neighbor

It was worth waiting for…

From : The Orthodox Study Bible. This statement was meaningful to me:

"He who is humble in his thoughts and engaged in spiritual work, when he
reads the Holy Scriptures, will apply everything to himself and not to
his neighbor." We are to look in scripture for a personal application.
"What does it mean to me?" Christ is speaking to us. We must listen!

So I have just returned from one of the most bizarre 24-hour periods of my entire life, I think.

I am going to bed early. A difficult day. A close friend's wife died, a
former neighbor and co-worker. But also very disturbing to me are things
I see happening because of economic problems. I find myself dealing
with more homeless people or people with loved ones in the hospital with
no food to eat. Plus patients are much sicker ! Speculation is that the

Congrats to our northwest Nashville neighbor, Fisk University, which has met its $4 million goal before the end of June deadline, qualifying it for $2 million from the Andrew Mellon Foundation.

Our neighbor, Susan needs your help to find her pets. Please help! Susan
of (mastmdsr@aol.com) writes:

From: mastmdsr@aol.com
To: rtatejohnson@comcast.net
Subject: Missing cat possibly cats
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:13:35 +0000

Hi Robin,
will you please forward this to the neighbors.

I’ve been reading for years about Dawn dishwashing liquid (the original, not the “new” kind) and its ability to get rid of fleas and just kind of went “ehhh” about it.  Not that I didn’t believe it worked at all, I just figured it probably didn’t work as well as people claimed it did.

I was so wrong.