1st John 4:19 ~ Good News Translation ~ "We love because God first loved us."

My blog consultant: Lil Miss Biscuit.

Well hello there and welcome to another visit. This one comes to you via the www and it pretty much reaches the entire globe 24x7. Today we celebrate Thursday, May 21, 2026, and, we thank God for another opportunity to recognize, honor, and serve Him. The other day a lady in our Lifegroup class called me on a video facetime call. I typically don't get very many of those types of calls and usually I'm not always ready for primetime in terms of my appearance. However, it did give me an opportunity to prove my accounts concerning my blog partner, Lil Miss Biscuit. I fixed the camera where she could see Biscuit in the chair with me as I was working on the next day's blog. I told this lady how Miss Biscuit was a favorite of mine since she mostly is very patient until I finish and she never criticizes my work. Never. She is always overjoyed when I finish but until I get up, she stays in her place either behind me, beside me, or, in my lap. I told our 87 year old neighbor yesterday how folks that visit have trouble relating to Miss Biscuit because she loves everyone, and, she wants them to know that. She will not take no for an answer because she can't figure out why anyone would not love her back. Her way of showing her love is to take action, in her case, it usually means up and into the lap of even a stranger. I've said before and I will say it again, I could learn something from our little doggie. I thought of the song lyrics, "Makes me love everybody, makes me love everybody...." speaking of the religion we have. But does it? Does it really make us love everybody as a reflection of God's love? Yeah. A sense of conviction came over me and it was initiated by the demonstrated love of my pup. That conviction asks me this question: What am I demonstrating? 

 

We have progressed here in our household. We typically use mostly paper plates these days. We do. We really do. I often allow Miss Biscuit the opportunity to clean the residue off the plate. The wife of my youth does not agree that even though Miss Biscuit has that plate pristine and clean, that we should use it again. The wife's mother, a most wonderful Godly woman, used to rinse off a paper plate and reuse it. My mom did the same thing. They both were well aware of how life was during the Great Depression, and, they both were very frugal. As many as 15% of all households use paper plates for their meals. Another 75% have them on hand and use them occasionally. As many as 15 billion paper plates are manufactured each year for use in the United States. Getting rid of them becomes a whole lot of trash, to the tune of roughly 1 million tons of discarded waste. My point? If the wife would let Miss Biscuit clean them up, we could then rinse them off, use them a few times more, and, maybe even get a letter of commendation from Al Gore to recognize our environmental sensitivity. That was a joke. But you knew that. Right? It's all about convenience. I still think they could be reused. I do. I really do. Y'all hang in there. Maybe there will be something better coming down the blog assembly line. One could hope. I do highly recommend to those of us who know the Lord and His love to be caught showing that same love towards others. Me too. Amen.