Make Today A Good Day In

The Spirit

by Glenn Mollette

Life is one day at a time. You don’t have tomorrow. You hope for tomorrow, but it’s not guaranteed. We plan for tomorrow. We save for tomorrow and look forward to tomorrow.

But today is what we have. If today is the last day of your life, how is it going? If you knew for sure, how would you want to spend your last precious 24 hours? You wouldn’t be planning next year’s vacation. No, you would want to get in all that you could possibly do.

Only you know for sure how you would want to spend your day, and everyone is different. Maybe you would spend your day with loved ones or maybe you would want to be strolling in the mountains or by the oceanside. Maybe you would want to spend your day eating ice cream, hamburgers and pizza. If it’s your last day, then why not?

Worship Services Around Here

Bayside Church of Placerville

Pastor Al Soto

Worship: Sun 10am; Youth: Thurs 6pm 4602 Misourri Flat Rd, Placerville info@baysideplacerville.com · baysideplacerville.com 530-626-7288

Bible Baptist Church

Pastor John Labins, conservative, evangelistic, independent Sun: 10am classes for all ages; 11am & 6pm Preaching; Wed: Bible Study & Prayer 6pm, Bible Club for kids

5391 Mother Lode Dr, Placerville 530-621-0482; www.BetterThanGold.org

Camino Seventh-day Adventist Church

Pastor: Avi Mendoza - Call 1st for updated info. Sat. study session 10:00am; worship 11:00am 3520 Carson Rd, Camino 530-644-2236 • elarsen.office@gmail.com www.caminoSDA.org

Church of Christ • Rescue

Phil Rembleski • Sunday worship only during pandemic!

Worship: Sun 10:30am & 5:30pm; 9:30am Sunday

School classes all ages; Bible class Wednesdays 7pm

4200 Green Valley Rd, Rescue 530-677-4502 • rescuechurchofchrist.org

Church of Our Savior

Rev. Deborah Sabino

Worship: Sun 8am & 10:30am

2979 Coloma St, Placerville 530-622-2441 • oursaviouroffice@gmail.com oursaviourplacerville.org

Church of the Nazarene

Reverend Dan Hopkins Worship: Sun 10:30am

6040 Mother Lode Dr, Placerville plaznaz@yahoo.com • www.plaznaz.com 530-622-3217

Discovery Hills Evangelical Free Church

Pastor Christopher Feigles

Worship: Sundays 9am, 10:30, 10:15 online 4270 Shingle Springs Dr., Shingle Springs www.discoveryhills.org • zoe@discoveryhills.org 530-677-1875

St. Patrick Catholic Church

Fr. Hernando Gomez Amaya

English Mass: Sat. 4pm; Sun. 8am, 10am; M-F 8:30am; Spanish Mass: Sun. 12:30pm & Wed. 6:30pm; 3109 Sacramento St., Placerville 530-622-0373

St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church

Pastor Trudy Franzen

Pastor George Turnboo

El Dorado Community ChurchCongregational

Sunday Worship 11:00 am

4701 Church St, El Dorado, racecar56g@yahoo.com, eldoradocommunitychurch.com, 530-622-8868

Federated Church

Pastor Rev. Dr. Laura Barnes

Worship: Sun 10:00am.

1031 Thompson Wy, Placerville www.EldoradoFederatedChurch.org office@eldoradoFederatedChurch.org, 530-622-0273

Freedom Church

Pastor Scott & Pastor Colleen Williams

Worship: Sun 9 & 10:30am. Youth: Tuesdays 6pm.

Men’s Bible Study: Fri 8am.

4414 Commodity Wy, Cameron Park, 530-677-7212 www.freedomchurchcp.org / office@freedomchurchcp.org

Holy Trinity Catholic Parish

Fr. Larry Beck Mass: Sat. Vigil Mass 5:30pm; Sun. Mass 7:30am, 9am, 11am Weekdays, M-F 8:15am. 3111 Tierra de Dios Dr., El Dorado Hills. holytrinity@holytrinity.parish.org • 530-677-3234 www.holytrinityparish.org

Sentinel Ministries, Inc.

Pastor Veronica Parker

Worship 1st Sunday only 1pm, Parish Hall at St.Stephen’s Lutheran Church 1001 Olson Ln, El Dorado Hills. 916-968-7844

Sun. Worship: Zoom Service 8:30; In-Person is 9:30am 1001 Olson Lane (at EDH Blvd), El Dorado Hills 916-933-1441 • st-steph@sslcedh.org, www.sslcedh.org

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I like ice cream, hamburgers and pizza but my doctor doesn’t recommend them as a daily diet because of the hopes of tomorrow. There are ways that we can shorten our days and too much of what we enjoy is not always very good for us.

Since life is one day at a time, we can’t go back and repeat yesterday. All the good you did is in the past. All the mistakes you made are in the past. You can spend the rest of your life wishing you could repeat high school, college or an old relationship. Actually, you are better off if you don’t sit around and think about it all the time. It’s good to remember the good memories of family, friends, life’s successes and joys but they are in the past. This often makes us sad because we know we can’t relive some of those great moments of life. It’s best to give thanks for them and move forward.

Today is a good day to make some more memories – good ones. Living your life today regardless of what you are doing is the life you have. Make the best of it by enjoying your life. Do what you enjoy. Be good to yourself. Don’t beat up on yourself. Don’t live your life fighting with others. Do your work. Find joy in your work or move on to a work that you do enjoy. Find ways to reduce stress and to be happy.

Keep in mind that you can’t make everyone else happy and don’t take on everyone else’s problems. You probably have enough of your own.

Dr. Glenn Mollette is the author of 13 books including Uncommon Sense and Minister’s Guidebook, insights from a fellow minister. His column is published weekly in over 600 publications in all 50 states. Learn more at glennmollette.com

CHANGING BELIEF SYSTEMS

Be patient. All good things take time if they are worthwhile.

Finally, just in case you do live a bunch more years, live today in such a way, that you can look back to today and remember it as a good day.

Our beliefs are a very powerful force on our behavior. It can shape affect or even determine our degree of intelligence, health, relationships, creativity, as well as our degree of happiness and personal success. Many of our beliefs were installed in us as children by parents, teachers, social upbringing, and the media before we were aware of their impact or able to make a choice about them. We now know it is possible to restructure, unlearn or change old beliefs that may be limiting us and imprint new ones that can expand our potential beyond what we currently imagine using the tool of Medical Hypnoanalysis.

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December

Every Tuesday

Tech Time * 10a - 11:30a

Placerville Senior Center - This is a free event, so please bring your tech devices and you can sit down with our volunteer for some one on one support. Questions? Call Andrea at 530.621.6150

Bingo Night * 6:15p - 9p Pollock Pines Community Center

1st, 2nd, 3rd Fridays

Line Dancing * 6p - 9p Smith Flat House - Instructed by Sara Schindler. $10 at the door. Food/ drinks available for purchase.

Every Friday & Saturday

Night Sky Viewing * 7:30p Community Observatory - free public viewing with docents on hand. Clouds, bad weather cancels. Check website after 3p and for late December dates. For information, communityobservatory.com

Every Saturday & Sunday (first 3 weekends of December)

Open Garden Day * 9a - 12p Sherwood Demonstration Gardenhands-on, interactive experience about research-based, sustainable gardening practices specific to the west slope of El Dorado County, appropriate for all ages. Rain, high heat, high AQI cancels. mgeldorado.ucanr.edu

Every Sunday

Live Music * 5p - 7p

Smith Flat House - Carol Tuttle & the Jazz Trio

December 1

Coloma Lotus Christmas Tree

Lighting * 6p

Please join us on the bridge to light up the Christmas Tree at 6pm.

December 2

Cookies With Santa * 4p - 6p

El Dorado Hills Community Center$10/participant, under 2 free. Register at Eldoradohillscsd.org

December 3

Breakfast With Santa * 8a or 10a El Dorado Hills Community Center - Spend a 75 minute breakfast with Santa! $10/participant, under 2 years free. Register at Eldoradohillscsd.org

Make & Take Workshop * 8:30a - 12p Placerville Fairgrounds - Make your own homemade turkey stock that can be used in soups and stews and many other delicious meals. Need your own pressure canner and pot of homemade stock (recipe provided). Fee: $25 Preregistration required by Thursday, 12/1

Winter Rummage Sale * 9a - 4p Placerville Shakespeare Club - special Winter Rummage Sale featuring warm winter clothing such as coats, jackets, sweaters. Festive holiday decorations will be offered as well as many under the tree gifts, jewelry, toys, puzzles and games. Placerville-Shakespeare.com

Solar Observations * 10a - 12p

Community Observatory - Open for public viewing with telescopes of the daytime sky. Docents are on hand to answer questions. Free; weather cancellations determined by 5p day prior. Communityobservatory.com

Live Music * 4p - 7p

Highway 50 Brewery - Walkin the Dawg Band

December 4

Christmas Parade * 1p - 3p

Main Street Placerville - Don’t miss this year’s Parade, featuring floats, decorated vehicles, marching band, and dancers. Santa and all his helpers will be there to welcome you and your family.

2nd Annual Jingle Mingle * 1p - 5p

Cameron Park Community Center Enjoy complimentary lite bites, wine and beer tasting, raffle, bid on decorated Christmas trees (online auction), shop our Christmas boutique and local artisans’. Tickets: $50 Adult ($60 at the door), $10 Children (12 and under). Tickets available online October 26th. Please visit AssistanceLeague.org/sierra-foothills

December 10

ECV Toy Collection * 9a - 5p

Pine Lodge - Bring your new, unopened toy to donate for a child in our community.

Holiday Bazaar * 10a - 4p

Coloma Gold Trail Grange - Come find that perfect one of a kind Christmas gift at the Gold Trail Grange annual Holiday Bazaar. Vendor space available for the bazaar. Contact Teal at sierrarizing@yahoo.com

Christmas in Coloma * 10a - 4p

Marshall State Park - Join us for oldfashioned Christmas fun including warming fires, music, gift vendors, crafts, wreath making, hot food and beverages, Santa and more! And don’t miss the holiday house tour. $10/ parking, $5/house tour.

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Help for the Holidays * 1p - 5p

Plymouth Community ChurchToys, gifts, door prizes, stockings for kids and visit with Santa. For more information or to donate, email info@helpfortheholidays.store

December 11

EnterTRAINment Event * 9a - 2p

El Dorado Western Railroad Depot facebook.com/

Join us at the Depot and Community Hall for train rides, face painting, caroling, pictures with Santa, crafts and much more!

ElDoradoWesternRailroad

Christmas in Coloma * 10a - 4p

Marshall State Park - Join us for oldfashioned Christmas fun including warming fires, music, gift vendors, crafts, wreath making, hot food and beverages, Santa and more! And don’t miss the holiday house tour. $10/ parking, $5/house tour. Marshallgold. com for info

Holiday Bazaar * 10a - 4p

Coloma Gold Trail Grange - Come find that perfect one of a kind Christmas gift at the Gold Trail Grange annual Holiday Bazaar. Vendor space available for the bazaar. Contact Teal at sierrarizing@yahoo.com

Santa Visit * 1p - 5p

Pollock Pines Community Center - full dinner served at 2p, kid toy giveaway, Santa arrives at 3:30p to hear what you want for Christmas!

December 13

This Month in History * 1p - 2p

Placerville Senior Center - Together we will discuss events that occurred during each featured month and share what we may have experienced during those times. Questions? Call Andrea @ 530.621.6238

Events

Using Ancestry.com * 10a/6p

Placerville Family History CenterLearn more about this website and what it has to offer, basic ancestry.com trees, research, and collections. 3275 Cedar Ravine Rd * 530.621.1378

December 17

Live Music * 4p - 7p Highway 50 Brewery - O’Connell Street Band

Placerville Art Walk * 4p - 8p Main Street - Placerville Art Walk takes place 3rd Saturday of every month. Galleries stay open late and often have special events like music, preforming arts, and artists’ reception. For more info, visit facebook.com/ PlacervilleArtWalk

December 18

Train Rides * 10a, 11a, 12p, 1p The El Dorado Western Railroad

- Round trips from the El Dorado Station, 4650 Oriental St, El Dorado. Rides are on historic gang cars. Tickets first come, first serve. $3$8; Doors open 9:30a for any ride. More info: 530-663-3581 (Sunday) or museum (railroad sponsor, for general information), 530-621-5865.

December 24

Placerville Holiday Jingle & Mingle * 9a - Mosquito Rd Trailhead

The path is surrounded with beautiful oak trees, rolling hills, and incredible views. The race is held rain or shine. Strollers are allowed in the 5K, 10K, and 15K. tctruns.com