September 15 – “Dodging Nani’s watchful eye”

The anniversary of Hurricane passed fairly quietly around here.  Save from an editorial in the paper about how they considered the anniversary date to be the day the death and destruction began as opposed to the National Weather Service’s date of when the eye crossed onto land, everyone around here was just glad we didn’t get an Isaac and happy to have some much-needed rain. 

Speaking of hurricane preparations, I spent much of yesterday back at scanning our old pictures.  The idea is to have another, more easily transported set over and above the huge, bulky photo albums we have in our closet.  And that’s not just one or two albums I’m talking about here.  We have twenty or thirty of the things.  We even have a stack of empty plastic tubs up in the attic that have been designated as travel receptacles for the photo albums.  I completed the album that covered 1979 through 1981, and I have begun the next one.  That means Josh has just had his first birthday.  Cute kid.

Jachin, Micah, and Josiah came over for the evening.  Their Mom and Dad went to the Hitchcock high school football game.  Oh, by the way, my old high school team broke a twenty game losing streak last night.  Way to go, Ball High Tors.  My other team, the Astros lost their 99^th game of the season last night.  Hey, somebody has to root for the underdogs.  And speaking of baseball, that’s kind of what we played last night.  The boys found a rubber ball and we played “bounce the baseball off the refrigerator and see who can make a great play on it.”  Ah, that brought back some fond memories.  Not that I ever played that one exactly.  But I made up lots of games that involved bouncing a rubber ball off the side of the house.  Most of the time I did it outside, though.  But then, I wasn’t at my grandparents’ house where anything  goes, right?  Of course Nani wasn’t quite as excited about the contest as the guys were.  She started making up all kinds of rules about how high the ball could hit.  Something about possibly breaking things.  What could we possibly break in the kitchen?  We also played a card game they brought over.  Something to do with Pokemon.  Probably the most confusing game ever.  Think I’ll stick to bouncing a baseball off the fridge and dodging Nani’s watchful eye.  Keeps me in shape.

Psalms 29:10-11 says, “The Lord sits enthroned over the flood; the Lord is enthroned as King forever.  The Lord gives strength to his people; the Lord blesses his people with peace.”

Father, thank you for the reminder that the purpose of strength is peace.  Amen.