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Page 10A, The Lee County Ledger, Wednesday, May 11,2022
And Then, There It Was
From The Bible
By Jerry Kingery
Special to the Ledger
Dr. James L. Snyder
In getting older, I
have discovered, I pay
a little more attention to
my dietary habits. Or,
maybe I should say, The
Gracious Mistress of the
Parsonage pays more
attention to my dietary
habits.
As we get older, she
is more obsessed with
vegetables than anything
else. But, for the life of
me, I cannot figure out
exactly why.
With a close handle on
my diet, she leads the
way in what she refers
to as “A healthy diet.”
Being married as long
as I have, I have learned
to go along with the pro
gram from the kitchen. I
like what someone once
said, “Do you want to be
right or happy?” Obvi
ously, you can’t be both;
you have to choose one
or the other.
As obsessed as The
Gracious Mistress of
the Parsonage is with
vegetables, particular
ly green vegetables,
she has the opposite
view when it comes to
cookies. Cookies are not
necessarily a “no-no,”
but they are under her
strict supervision.
Several times a week,
she will give me a cook
ie. As she gives it to me,
she will say, “One is
enough.”
I usually respond by
saying, “One more is
never enough.”
I laugh while she just
stares at me. I must say I
have never eaten a cook
ie I did not like. I am
especially partial to Girl
Scout cookies. I usually
tell my wife that buying
a Girl Scout cookie goes
for a very good cause. I
don’t tell her, but I’m not
thinking about the Girl
Scouts.
If the Girl Scouts are
selling cookies, those
cookies must be good
for you. After all, they
wouldn’t sell anything
bad for you, would they?
My wife
never has
an answer
to that
question.
Things
turned
around just
last week.
I was
taking
some
things to the trashcan,
and as I put in some
thing, I noticed a receipt
from the grocery store.
I’m always interested
to see how much she’s
spending and how much
she’s saving. So I pulled
out the receipt and found
that she had spent $45,
but she saved $48. I’m
not quite sure how she
does that or how that
works, but I leave that
responsibility to her.
I was about to throw
it back into the trashcan
when I noticed some
thing on the receipt.
There were boxes of
cookies on her receipt
that she had purchased
that day. I think it was
something like six
boxes.
So, as I was thinking,
those cookies must be
somewhere in the house.
That receipt was dated
several days ago, and so
was a recent purchase.
Where are those cook
ies?
The kitchen area is my
wife’s responsibility,
and she has it very well
organized. I can’t find
anything, but she can al
ways. I was begin
ning to think that
there were boxes of
cookies somewhere
in this kitchen area.
If I could find just
one box of cookies,
I could eat one or
two or three behind
her back and her
not knowing it.
She was away for
the afternoon, and so I
spent the time looking
all through the kitchen
for where she might
hide those cookies. If I
did not know there were
cookies there, I would
not even begin to look.
But my curiosity, not to
mention my appetite,
got the best of me, and I
wanted to find them.
For the first hour and
!4,1 searched every
where and could not
come up with one box
of cookies. I knew they
had to be somewhere
right in front of me, but
I couldn’t find them for
the life of me.
Then it occurred to
me. I’m a little over 1
foot taller than my wife.
That got me thinking
that perhaps those cook
ies are closer to the floor
than I was looking. So
I got on my hands and
knees and opened up
one of the doors at the
bottom of the cabinet.
I searched through that
and then went to the
next and then to the
next.
Then, much to my
dietary delight, I found
a stack of cookie boxes
way in the back of that
lower door. There they
were, in all of their
beauty.
I carefully pulled one
out, opened it, extracted
three, and then decided
to make it four cookies.
They look so delicious,
especially in my hand.
So I carefully closed up
the box and put it way in
the back so she wouldn’t
see it right away.
I enjoyed eating those
cookies that afternoon,
the next afternoon,
and the next afternoon.
Before I knew it, I had
eaten two boxes of Girl
Scout cookies. And I
got away with it. What a
dietary victory.
When I came back
from a project I was
working on, standing in
the kitchen and looking
at me with both hands
on her hips, she said,
“Do you know anything
about the missing cook
ies in the cabinet?”
“No,” I said, “but I’ll
help you look for them.”
“No, you will not, but
you will stay clear of all
of those cookies.”
Then I shared one
of my favorite verses
of Scripture with her.
“Give, and it shall be
given unto you; good
measure, pressed down,
and shaken together, and
running over, shall men
give into your bosom.
For with the same mea
sure that ye mete withal
it shall be measured to
you again” (Luke 6:38).
Having a giving atti
tude is one of the most
important aspects of the
Christian life.
Dr. James L. Snyder
lives in Ocala, FL with
the Gracious Mistress of
the Parsonage. Tele
phone 1-352-216-3025,
e-mail jamessnyder51@
gmail.com. Website is
www.jamessnyderminis-
tries.com.
The plot against Jesus
After two days was
the feast of the pass-
over, and of unleav
ened bread: and the
chief priests and the
scribes sought how
they might take him
by craft, and put him
to death. But they said,
Not on the feast day,
lest there be an uproar
of the people. And
being in Bethany in
the house of Simon the
leper, as he sat at meat,
there came a woman
having an alabaster
box of ointment of
spikenard very pre
cious; and she brake
the box, and poured
it on his head. And
there were some that
had indignation within
themselves, and said,
Why was this waste
of the ointment made?
For it might have been
sold for more than
three hundred pence,
and have been given
to the poor. And they
murmured against her.
And Jesus said, Let her
alone; why trouble ye
her? she hath wrought
a good work on me.
For ye have the poor
with you always, and
whensoever ye will
ye may do them good:
but me ye have not
always. She hath done
what she could: she
is come aforehand to
anoint my body to the
burying. Verily I say
unto you, Wheresoever
this gospel shall be
preached throughout
the whole world, this
also that she hath done
shall be spoken of for a
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Judas Iscariot, one of
the twelve, went unto
the chief priests, to
betray him unto them.
And when they heard
it, they were glad, and
promised to give him
money. And he sought
how he might conve
niently betray him.
And the first day
of unleavened bread,
when they killed the
passover, his disci
ples said unto him,
Where wilt thou that
we go and prepare
that thou mayest eat
the passover? And
he sendeth forth two
of his disciples, and
saith unto them, Go ye
into the city, and there
shall meet you a man
bearing a pitcher of
water: follow him. And
wheresoever he shall
go in, say ye to the
goodman of the house,
The Master saith,
Where is the guest-
chamber, where I shall
eat the passover with
my disciples? And he
will shew you a large
upper room furnished
and prepared: there
make ready for us.
And his disciples went
forth, and came into
the city, and found as
he had said unto them:
and they made ready
the passover.
from Mark 14
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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
Les Reed, 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
Sunday School 9:15 AM
Worship Service..10:30 AM
Westview Baptist Church
Rev. Grady Morey
Sunday School....9:45 AM
Worship Service...11:00 AM
Evening Worship...5:00 PM
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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. Bolden
Sunday School ...10:00 AM
Morning Worship 12:00 PM
Bible Study (1st Sun) .5:00 PM
Eve. Wor. (1st Sun)7:00 PM
McAfee Grove
Missionary Baptist
Minister Robert Lewis
Morgan
First & Third Sundays
Sunday School ...10:00 AM
Worship 11:00 AM
Second & Fourth Sundays
Sunday School 8:00 AM
Worship 9:00 AM
Macadonia Baptist Church
Sunday School ...10:30 AM
First Sunday
Morning Worship 11:45 AM
Third Sunday
Evening Worship .6:00 PM
Jordan Grove Baptist
Rev. Rod Hubbard
Sunday School 9:45 AM
Worship Service. 11:00 AM
The Pointe
Carl Barnhardt
Sunday Worship...9:00 am
Children’s Ministry
(Infants - 3 yr old)
Sunday Worship...10:30 am
Children’s Ministry
(Infants - 5th grade)
Leesburg Church
Of Christ
Bro. 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 1 st, 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 HopeAME
Rev. E.X. King
E very Island third Sunday
Sunday School 10:00 AM
Sunday Worship 11:00 AM
House Of God
Saints In Christ
Elder A.F. Caldwell, Pastor
Sunday School 10:30 AM
1st, 2nd, & 4th Sundays
Morning Worship ...,11:45 AM
2nd & 4th Sunday
Evening Service 6:30 PM
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The Church at
the Groves
Worship 9:30 AM
Worship 11:00 AM
Wooden Grove Baptist
Joe Jones, Pastor
1st, 3rd, & 5th Sunday
Sunday School ...,9:45 AM
Worship 11:00 AM
2nd & 4th Sunday
Sunday School 7:45 AM
Worship 9:00 AM
Lifegate Church
Sunday Service...10:00 AM
Thundering Springs
Baptist Church
Sunday School 9.45 AM
Morning Worship 11:00 AM
Evening Worship .6:00 PM
Leesburg United
Methodist Church
Pastor Lee Smith
Worship 8:30 AM
Sunday School ...,9:30 AM
Worship 10:30 AM
Green Grove Baptist
Smithville, GA
Rev. H. Waters
Sunday School ..11:00 AM
Every First Sunday
Morning Worship 11:45 AM
Kingdom Vision
Christian Center
Rev. Earl S. Harrison,
Pastor
Sunday School ...10:00 AM
Sunday Worship. 11:15AM
Heritage Full
Gospel Church
Hickory Grove Road
Sunday School 9:45 AM
Sunday Service.... 10:45 AM
Sunday Evening.. 6:00 PM
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Worship 10:15 AM
Evening Worship ..6:00 PM
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Green Baptist Church
Rev. Andrew E.
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Sunday School 9:45 AM
Worship 11:15 AM
Flint Reformed
Baptist Church
Joshua DeLong, Pastor
Worship 10 AM
Evening Worship 5 PM
Amazing Grace
Baptist Church
Dr. Johnny Nixon
Sunday School 9:45 AM
Morning Worship.,10:45AM
Evening Worship...6:00 PM
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Sunday School 9:00 AM
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Sunday School... 10:00 AM
2nd and 4th Sunday
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Al Bryant, Pastor
Sunday School ..10:00 AM
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Shady Grove
Baptist Church
Ferlin Tyson, Pastor
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St. Matthew Missionary
Baptist Church
Rev. Dr. H. C. Wilson,
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Sunday School... 10:00 AM
2nd. Sun. Worship..11:00 AM
4th Sunday 7:00 PM
Church Family of
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Pastor Norbert Ingram
Sunday 11:00
New Hope Baptist
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Jonathan LaBarge Pastor
Sunday School 10 am
Service 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.