A Walk in the Park

On Sunday, January 30, 1916 Bonnie Elmore wrote: Warm-Clear. Read "English Literature". Carter Thompson and I walked to Crystal Spring and Mountain Park. Stopped at Steffey's. Bought Cigars and went to Elmwood Park. Carter Thompson and I together with Woolridge went out to Steffey's and stayed until 10:30 p.m. I retired at 11:30. Woolridge paid carfare. This particular Sunday sounds as though it was a "guy's day out", walking around town, smoking cigars in the park, and visiting friends. I know from some other posts that the Steffeys were family friends but I wonder if maybe they owned some kind of business as well? Is that where they bought the cigars? It certainly is not clear and warm here in 2010. Cold and snowy. about 8 inches now and still falling. Looks like no church tomorrow, but I have been called in to work again. This time to help dig out a fire scene from last night. Our office is short one fire marshal and I don't mind helping out. In fact, I will likely make some good over time. Read today from Exodus 10-12; Pharaoh is still hardening his heart and now wanting to compromise, bot Moses is not willing to negotiate. Jesus died to set us free, totally free, from sin and we should not negotiate or compromise with what can hold us in bondage either. Exodus 10:3 says that Pharaoh refused to humble himself and in Matthew 20:1-28 it talks about "the last will be first and the first will be last" and how if you want to be great, you must be a servant and a slave. Jesus set the example for us in this. Proverbs 6 also talked about being busy and not being lazy. I have that covered and God blesses that I believe. I can't really grumble too much about having to work tomorrow.