Happy Mardi Gras day! 

We hosted a Mardi Gras four-course meal at our home for 12 people for 35 years! People we invited to come could only come one time. So we hosted lots of guests from our area over the years!

This is the second year we haven't had a party. If you are someone who came to eat with us, thanks for the memories!!

Today's Karen's Korner is from Anne Graham Lotz, in my inbox on March 1. Like yesterday, it talks about 'love'. You would think it was Valentine's Day; not Mardi Gras!

GRINDING OFF THE SHARP EDGES

"My command is this. Love each other as I have loved you."

~ John 15:12 NIV

"In the Old Testament, the meal offering consisted of fine flour that was ground to powder by being placed in a round hole, where it was grated by a square pestle. The flour was then mixed with oil which represented the Holy Spirit. The oil and flour, thoroughly mixed together and offered to God, was a picture of a totally consecrated life.

"Sometimes God puts us with someone whom He uses to grate us. For instance, perhaps you are very generous with your money, and you are married to someone who is so careful, he or she is almost stingy. Or perhaps you are very quiet, and God has put you on a committee with someone who talks nonstop. Or worse, perhaps you are a nonstop talked and you are on a committee with another nonstop talker! Instead of avoiding those with whom we are incompatible or just tolerating them, Jesus commands you and me to love them. And as we obey His command, He will use that person to grind off our sharp, impatient, un-Christlike edges."

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