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Page 6B, The Lee County Ledger, Wednesday, April 24,2019 A Cookie Isn’t a Cookie Unless You Can Sneak It Special to the Ledger Dr. James L Snyder The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and I enjoy one glorious con nection; she loves to bake and I love to eat what she bakes. I did not marry her be cause of her baking skills because I did not know she had them at the time. I did know her mother was a wonderful cook and I assumed there might be some gene transferred to her daughter. If the truth were known, she loves to bake as much as I love to eat. When ever there is a function in the church, she is always baking, espe cially cookies. Her cookies are the best I have ever eaten, and believe me, I have eaten a lot. So many that I have gotten into trouble several times. My only response to her inquiries along this line is, “If you didn’t make such delicious cookies I would not be tempted to eat them. So, it’s all your fault.” I have yet to sell that line to her, but I still try. Of course, if I could sell her this I could sell her anything. So much for trying. I am not sure which cookie she bakes that I like the most. I usually say, “The cookie I like the most is the one I’m eating at the time.” To which, she usually responds, “The trouble with that is, you never eat just one at a time.” Okay. She’s got me on that one. She usually does, so it’s no big deal for me. An incident happened recently that caught me by surprise. It was leading up to a special fellowship function in our church. These are great times of fellowship, espe cially around the dessert table. Don’t get me wrong here. I do like fellowship ping with other people, but I like it best when we fellowship around some des sert. It does not matter the dessert. I was working on a difficult project and was not think ing about anything outside of my work zone. I spent a day at home try ing to catch up on some of the things I was doing and I happened to notice on top of the refrigerator was some freshly baked cookies. Right here I would like to say that I did my very best to resist temptation. I am not a fan of Oscar Wilde, but I do like one quote of his. “I can resist anything except tempta tion.” When it comes to the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage’s freshly baked cookies, that de scribes me to an after noon tea. Several times as I walked by the refrigera tor, I could smell those wonderful cookies. To my credit, I resisted as much as I could, which accord ing to my wife is not quite enough. I walked by the cookies and took one. After all, I thought to myself, who’s going to miss one cookie? However, after eating that first cookie, I could not think of my work any more and all I could think of was how delicious that cookie was. I thought to myself, “Isn’t my wife one wonderful baker.” Then I smiled and tried to go back to my work at hand. It worked for maybe three minutes, but then my thoughts wandered back to those freshly baked cookies on top of the refrigerator. “What’s it going to hurt,” I said to myself, “if I get one more cookie?” So, walking by the refrigerator I took one more cookie. After all, I thought to myself, if they were not so delicious, I would not want to eat them. That has to stand for something! Soon I was engulfed in my work at hand and not paying attention to any thing outside that realm. I got my work done. The only thing I remember is going out into the kitchen and sneaking just one more cookie. It was then that the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage came home. How fast time goes. Then I heard it. “You did not eat these cookies on top of the refrigerator did you?” By the tone of her voice, I knew I was in trouble. It is not that I have not been in trouble before. This one caught me completely off guard. “Those cookies were for our fellowship this coming Sunday. What happened to them?” Oh boy. “I couldn’t resist those cookies and so I had just one.” “If you had just one, where did the rest go?” At this point, to come up with an explanation that would satisfy her inquiry was well beyond my pay grade. I did not recall eating all those delicious cookies. Each cookie tasted better than the one before. I tried to explain, “Those were the best cookies in the whole wide world. The best cookies you have ever baked.” She just gave me one of “those stares.” After apologizing for my misdeed, I thought of a Scripture verse along this line. “There hath no tempta tion taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it” (1 Corinthians 10:13). The worst temptation is the one you think is not a temptation and one you can handle on your own. If it were not for tempta tions, I would not know how gracious God is in his forgiving power. Dr. James L. Snyder is pastor of the Family of God Fellowship, and lives with the Gracious Mistress of the Parson age in Ocala, FL. Call him at 352-687-4240 or e-mail jamessnyder2@att. net. The church web site is www.whatafellowship. com. James L. Snyder From The Bible By Jerry Kingery Twelve stones set up For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, accord ing to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over. And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people. And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them: About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho. On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life. And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan. Joshua therefore com manded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan. And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before. And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gil- gal, in the east border of Jericho. And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over: That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever. from Joshua 4 For a free Scripture packet, please write From the Bible, BIBLE FOUNDATION, PO Box 908, Newberg, Oregon 97132. email: bf@bf.org Attend The House of Worship of Your Choice This Sunday Lee County Church Of Christ Eddie Garcia, Minister Bible Study 9:30 AM Worship..10:30 AM & 6:00 PM Smithville Baptist Lance Fendley, Pastor Sunday School... 10:00 AM Worship...11 AM & 7 PM Philema Road Baptist Sunday School 9:45 AM Morning Worship 11:00 AM Evening Worship ..6:00 PM Alpha Baptist Tom Howard, Pastor Sunday School 9:45 AM Morning Worship 11:00 AM 1st Sunday of the Month Evening Worship ..6:00 PM Antioch Baptist Church Rev. Lem Wright 1st and 3rd Sunday Sunday School 9:00 AM 4th Sunday Worship Service. 10:00 AM Friendship Baptist Church of Lee County Mark Spraggins, Pastor Sunday School 9:45 AM Morning Service.. 11:00 AM Phillip Grove Baptist Pastor Jenkins Sunday School... 10:00 AM 1 st & 3rd Sunday 11:00 AM Mt. Pleasant Baptist Pastor E B Washington Sunday School 8:00 AM Worship Service ...,9:15AM Albany Bible Church Pastor Pete Daughtry, Sun. Bible Class...9:30 & 11:00 Christ’s Sanctified Holy Church Rev. Gary Collier Sunday School... 10:00 AM Worship Service.. 11:00AM Life Church Pastor Matthew Schluckebier Sr. Adult SS 9:30AM Sunday Service....10:45AM Westview Baptist Church Rev. Grady Morey Sunday School....9:45 AM Worship Service...11:00 AM Evening Worship...5:00 PM Kinchafoonee Baptist Rev. Melvin Slappy Sunday School 9:45 AM Morning Worship 11:00 AM Evening Worship .7:00 PM Smithville United Methodist Rev. Duane Whittaker Worship 9:30 AM Sunday School ...10:45 AM Palmyra Baptist J. D. 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Howard Bouldin Sunday School 9:30 AM Morning Worship 10:45 PM Evening Worship .5:00 PM Greater Zion Hope Apostle Henry L Hosley Every 1st, 4th, 5th Sunday Sunday School...8:00 a.m. Sunday Worship..9:00 a.m. Albany Community Seventh-day Adventist Church Pastor Steve Rose Saturdays Bible Study 9:30 AM Worship 10:40 AM Unity Church of Christianity Rev. Joanna Gabriel Morning Worship ...,11:00 AM New Hope AME Rev. E.X. King Every 1st and third Sunday Sunday School 10:00 AM Sunday Worship 11:00 AM House Of God Saints In Christ Elder A.F. 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