Weekend doings

It has been very busy this weekend, mostly on Sunday. All day Saturday I worked at the runoff election. All the regular precincts were open. I suspect to try to increase the vote to keep a certain incumbent at large councilwoman from losing. That is a lot of money spent. But the mayor likes her. However she lost anyway to a conservative candidate who has run against her five times, finally winning. She was her own worst enemy.

Sunday I helped at Brighton and did a talk on Habakkuk and the promise of a savior to come. Habakkuk prophesies against people taking advantage of the poor and God tells him he is sending a barbarous tribe to punish Israel by an awful violent invasion. Yet in the midst of it all there a promises of a better time, this is the time of the savior, of God's anointed. It does fit into Christmas in that it explains very clearly why we need a savior, why Jesus had to come. DW says it was negative. I am just trying to do some out of the ordinary.

Then we had Vineyard church and another sermon on giving less and helping deserving charities. We may give money to charities in lieu of gifts, at least in addition to gifts.

The Texans were on in the background. It was nice to see and hear they won again and clinched the playoffs. I felt a little sorry for the Bengal team. A little. But I cannot get into this like I did the Oilers. I think Rice college sports is my first love now. But I prefer the games I play online, they are what I actually invest time in. Watching is not enough anymore.

Then it was off to SJD for the evening service. We had the new priest who never comes in the evenings. I admit to reading my Greek bible and did not hear his sermon at all.

Vineyard had a concert and a posada. I talked it up at SJD but no one came. They had live animals and Nate looked great as Joseph with his very long hair. The posada part was what I was looking forward to. Carlos was very enthusiatic but I could not hear the responses since the doorkeepers did not open their doors. The tamales were great and the kids had great fun hitting the pinata.

Oh, Saturday night after the election, we got 41 people, more than I thought but still very few, I was tired but Marvin was over. We did try to watch "Living Out Loud" our netflix movie. It was weird and hard to understand. What was her fantasy and what was reality? I could not tell and none of the rest of us could either.

Then I made motions to go to bed but was talked into a few games of Boggle. That actually cheered me up a bit.

Oh, Sunday night after posada I got in a two or so mile walk. I planned in to some inclines to get something close to hill work. That was good.