July 2 – “Hello? Hello?”

We have a telephone problem.  No, it’s not one of those “I dropped it in the toilet and I’m letting it soak in rice” issues.  That would be easy.  It’s not even “I lost it and it was turned off so I can’t call it and follow the ring.”  Nope.  Not for us.  Here’s the thing.  If you call or text my phone or Chris’, just be sure that you don’t mind both of us seeing or hearing what you have to say.  All of a sudden we are receiving each other’s texts – they show up on both phones.  And when you call Chris, my phone will ring as well.  Works the other way, too.  Now, we don’t have any secrets from each other (Unless she’s planning something for my birthday coming up in August), so the whole thing is closer to a nuisance than anything.  We asked Kel to see if he could figure it out, but we apparently exhausted his expertise.  Guess he’s getting too old.  Plan is to make it down to the iPhone store sometime today and throw ourselves on the mercy of the young children working there.  Meanwhile, we’ll just have some fun answering each other’s texts. 

Speaking of Kel, we went over and hung out with his children yesterday so he and Christina could go look at some more houses.  Looks like they might just pull the trigger on one they saw, too.  They have 30 days to be out of the house they are in now.  We’re really praying that it works.  Otherwise we might have six house guests.  Wait.  Make that seven.  They’d bring their dog Lucy.  Oh, and their goldfish.  There’s two or three of them, too. 

It was Micah’s actual birthday.  He had his party last Saturday, but his gift from Mom and Dad came through.  They gave him a tool kit.  Not really a box.  It was made from some kind of heavy duty fabric.  They included some basic stuff, and we brought over some things from my stash of salvaged tools.  He even made use of the pair of pliers we gave him.  Used them to crack open the crab he was eating.  Just what they were made for.

We’re also doing some praying for April and her family.  Her grandfather died in his sleep the other night.  He was fighting cancer, and it sounded like his passing was really peaceful.  He was a believer, too, so he and the family took great comfort in the assurance that he was done with the cancer battle and on to some real eternal rest. 

Psalms 37:18 says, “The days of the blameless are known to the Lord, and their inheritance will endure forever.”

Father, wrap your arms around April and her family.  Give them some of those special hugs of yours.  Amen.