I heard a rumor the other day that some of
our fire department guys went above and beyond the call of duty after a wreck
call. Something about a dog in one of
the vehicles that they rescued and took back to the station to care for. How’s that for compassion?
Chris and I did some garage sale-ing
yesterday. How do you spell that
anyway? Sailing? Saling? Anyway, we didn’t find anything we
couldn’t live without. That’s the thing
about Chris. She has never been an
impulse buyer by any stretch of the imagination, and garage sales are all about
buying on impulse. She’s still looking
for that perfect china cabinet so she can display her vast collection of
Precious Moments figurines.
After working on the sermon for a while, I decided
to work in the yard, weeding some flower beds and ripping up some more
stickerburs. I wasn’t able to stay out
very long, but I was there long enough to meet our new neighbor. She saw me attacking the stickerburs and
offered to loan me her stand-up-instead-of-squat-down stickerbur-remover. Hey, anybody that has a stikerbur remover is
already a friend of mine. Oh, and by the
way, her name was Candy Darling. At
least that’s what she told me. Sounds
like something out of a J.M. Barrie book.
You know, Peter Pan and Wendy Darling.
Welcome to the neighborhood, fellow stickerbur-hater.
I have discovered this week that I’m going
to have to retrain my head and convince it that I candle heat and pain
again. For some strange reason, after my
fall last Sunday, the heat really gets to me.
And any joint pain or other twinge seems like it is intensified way beyond
what it should be, sometimes even to the point of making me nauseous. Chris says all that, combined with the off
and on headaches that I have been having, indicate that it’s a pretty good bet
that I had a concussion. I gotta get
over that.
Psalms 116:5-7says, “The Lord is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion. The
Lord protects the simplehearted; when I was in great need, he saved me. Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the Lord
has been good to you.”
Father, thank you for your compassion
towards me. I think that proves you
protect the simple-minded as well as the simple-hearted. Amen.
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