I
have to start with a Hurricane Relief Joke told to us this morning by
Cailyn. You might want to sit down for
this one … it’s a true classic.
Ready?
Question:
What did the insulation say to the flamingo?
Answer:
Have a very insulation day.
Why thank
you. I believe I will.
I
found out last night that Seaside is kinda famous. Well, at least we were mentioned in the
media, not once, but twice. The first
was a local furniture company’s FaceBook post. Starfine Furniture provided a
bunch of mattresses for the neighborhood in Alvin that a Seaside Team has been
working with. It was certainly a welcome
relief for the folks to sleep on something other than their floor. Thank you Hurricane Harvey relief partner … Starfine
Furniture.
The
second mention was not something you saw on FaceBook. It wasn’t Jim Cantore on the Weather Channel
(thank goodness). No, it wasn’t even the Galveston Daily
News. Seaside received mention – a whole
article, in fact – in none other than (insert
drumroll here) … the Atoka County Times.
That’s right, folks. We have been
immortalized in print. A reporter from
the Times wrote up a very nice article highlighting the third grade youngsters
who sent the moving encouragement cards with the trailer load of supplies. The class even got their picture in the paper,
always an exciting development when you are 8 years old. Seaside is proud of you kids at the Atushka
School (Did I get it right?). And we love you.
I
finally got to meet (over the phone)
Pastor Domingo from the Alvin community a Seaside Team has been working hard
with. He and the whole community look
forward to the days the Seaside Team comes to provide a hot meal. He told me a team from Manvel (a neighboring small community) came up
to Alvin the other day and helped with mucking out his church. His concern, however, sounded a bit more
significant that just restoration. He
said the building “seems to be leaning.
You can tell it when you walk inside.”
He wanted to have that issue addressed before he started using the
building even for storage. Sounds like they
might need a structural engineer to take a look at it.
We
received another donation that I helped the guy unload. Around fifteen cases of bleach (Any mucking teams out there need bleach?). Mucking masks – the good kind. Paper towels.
Gloves. Water. This load was from Servant of Nations Church
in Houston. They have stayed in our
retreat center several times, and they are doing a lot of relief work in
Houston, so they wanted to share some of their resources with us. The guy who made the delivery was actually
from New Hampshire. He is friends with the
youth pastor at Servant of Nations, and was in the area scoping things out for an
effort that will bring 800 college students from the Northeast to the
area. But not until Spring of next
year. He checked out the retreat center
as a possible place to stay.
When
he left I replaced the broken ceiling tile in one of the Retreat Center
bathrooms. It had some water damage on
it, causing it to collapse onto one of the toilets (Glad there was no one in there at the time. That would have been frightening). We took pictures for the insurance guy, but I’m
pretty sure it is just like the problems downstairs … wind driven rain, which
is not covered. I have no idea when an
insurance guy will be able to get to us, anyway, so at least now we can use the
bathroom. Oh, and I also replaced a
broom. Yep, a broom. The one up there was bent … in half. Oh, I used it to sweep up the debris. Felt like a Smurf. Or a Hobbit.
1
Peter 5:8-9 says, “Be self-controlled and
alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for
someone to devour. Resist him, standing
firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are
undergoing the same kind of sufferings.”
Father,
thank you for Cailyn’s joke this morning.
As goofy as it is … I needed that.
Amen.
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