As Requested>>>>>>:)

Today we went to our Special Assembly Day in Grantville, Pa. Just outside of Hershey. It went too fast! I already enjoyed the program with Pat Julie and Maddie in Cali.... but we can't have too much spiritual food can we:) I sat with Mike who picked seats beside Micah and his family( i usually sit up in on of the first two front rows.... find that I can concentrate better there, but conceded to Mike's wishes this time cause I will be sittin by myself when he is all grown up:( but I will be totally happy if he is actually going to the same assembly hall that i am assigned to ). One of the illustrations that the brother gave that stuck was during the talk ...Not using the world to the full... based on Pauls comment that the world had to offer was refuse. He noted that during the Sanitation Depts strike in NY a few years ago there was trash all over the streets and sidewalks... it was everywhere.....except in the front of this one house. The news crew investigated and asked the homeowner how he accomplished having no trash. He said that he would go around his house each evening ...gather up all of the trash ...place it in a box...wrappped it in pretty wrapping paper with a nice bow. He then proceeded to take it outside , placed it into the back seat of his car....left the window down just far enough that someone could reach in and unlock his door. He said every morning he would come out and the box would be gone!
Modern application: Satan wraps the refuse and trappings of the world up nice and pretty so that we want to expend time and energy away from our service to Jehovah, to aquire it. Then when we finally have it, it is still just putrid rotten refuse, and he has succeeded.