The Power of Darkness

It's that time of year, I was at work at 4:15 and as I looked out the window it was dark.  Not twilight but dark. As I head home after 5:00 I feel like I have worked overtime since I stayed over an hour after dark. Living in Maine at the eastern end of the eastern time zone the day ends early.  I am not a big fan of the darkness at the end of the day.  The days will only get shorter until we get to December 21st and then it shifts the other way.  Don't get me wrong I love Maine.  I like the seasons pretty much the same.  If pressed I would have to pick fall as my favorite season.  I just fall lasted just a little longer and the days were a little longer.

There are many aspects to this idea of darkness.  We can be locked up as prisoners in a cell away from the light of day.  We can be in darkness in living in a society where truth is suppressed and their isn't a freedom of thought and speech.  We can be in darkness when our freedoms are restricted.  We can also be living in the darkness of a broken relationship to God our creator.

Growing Stronger Everyday

Last Saturday had a great ride with the Calvary Cruisers (Christian Motorcycle Club).  We did something called a progressive supper (actually it started at 11:00 am and went to 7:00 pm).  We traveled up to North Conway and had appetizers with dear a dear brother and sister in Christ who have retired to a development in that area.   Appetizers might be the wrong word for a table spread for 10 people that included fruit dish, cheese and crakers, bread ball with cheese mix, bread pieces baked with cheese topping, ginger butter, apple butter, shrimp dip, veggie platter, eggs wrapped in sausage and baked, cream cheese, pumkin bread, spice bread, rasin bread and some other exotic dishes I can't remember.  From there we traveled over to parsonfield where the Libby family served us brocoli salad and venison stew.  If I wasn't so stuffed by the appetizers I would have had about 3 bowls of stew.  We then traveled to our house for meatball subs, sweet potatoe and sausage casserole, and macaronin and cheese.  Wow!! If that wasn't enough we then went to Rhonda's house for dessert.  Apple Crisp, Fudge Brownies, cookies and something else that was real good but I forgot.  We ate way too much and that is what contributed to our slow progress. A normal progressive supper lasts about 2 hours, ours lasted 8.