Tuesday Tidbits

How can it be possible that we are over the half-way point of November?! And Thanksgiving is next week!

I've managed to keep up with the Giving Thanks Challenge by adding each day to the list in my sidebar, and it's been a blessing. I appreciate the intentionality of coming up with something different each day; sometimes it's easy to get stuck in a rut of thanking God for the same things.

And the waning days of November mean two things near and dear to my heart are coming:



and

Starbucks Peppermint Mocha

(Get those Pumpkin Lattes outta here!)

And OH.MY.GOODNESS! When I went to find the picture above, I discovered that Starbucks now has Limited Edition Peppermint Mocha Ice Cream, sold in grocery stores.

On their ice cream website it is described as "a swirl of Mocha and Peppermint ice creams adorned with rich, dark chocolaty chunks."

Excuse me a moment while I wipe the drool off of the keyboard and have a moment of anticipatory silence!

In a little--okay, a lot!--more serious vein, I've been pondering something from my pastor's message a couple of Sundays ago on envy. He said, "Envy questions God's sovereignty; we want what God has given someone else." I'd never thought about it quite that way. Very convicting, and it certainly makes "petty jealousy" an oxymoron!

Finally, judging by the 6 million-plus hits, I'm apparently the only one that had never seen this before yesterday. Absolutely incredible. Their balance is amazing beyond words.



Have a great Tuesday!