Genesis 48 Old Jeeps bad backs and Jacob and Joseph

    


Good Friday morning to each of you, I hope this letter finds you and yours well! Other than a few tweaked backs, all is good here on The Little Hundred Acre Wood. Working on the old Jeep yesterday, I was replacing the notoriously defective CPS, and although it could have been very easy to access, the engineers designed it to be installed at about one o’clock on the bell housing, on the transmission just behind the valve cover, out of reach and mostly out of sight. They lasted ten years or more when from the factory but are no langer available as OEM parts. The replacement parts are out of China, and maybe one out of ten will last more than a few months! Well, all this to say, somewhere in all that blind reaching and murmuring harsh things against China and engineers, I felt a crick start in my neck, and it spread through the day to my whole back! So on the same day, I had a new door installation for a customer and friend, only to return home with Madeline, who had a hurting back also! We had dinner out with some friends and then headed to Re/Gen at church. Our step group is making some real progress as we start Inventory, one of the most challenging steps for most participants. When Madeline and I returned home, we took some muscle relaxants and went straight to bed. Three o’clock came a bit earlier than usual for me, or that's the way it felt anyway! Hopefully, my very busy day will work this stiffness out of me and not make it worse.

So as I feel and write about all of this, I can’t help but think about what it must have felt like for Jacob/Israel now at about 147 years old and close to death. It must be so very hard for the elderly just to move small amounts if I am hurting this much before sixty-five! So Joseph and Jacob have a little contention as Jacob blesses Joseph’s young sons. I guess all fathers frustrate their adult kids at some point! Click the link below and listen for yourself to Genesis 48 and start The Daily Bible Challenge with all of us!

Talk with you soon!

https://www.blueletterbible.org/audio_video/popPlayer.cfm?type=nasb_n&b=1&c=48

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