OK. Monday.
As
usual my Monday begins with work.
Biggest workday of the week, other than Sunday. It’s the day I tie together everything from
last week to whatever needs to happen in the coming week. How do pastors take Monday as a day off? How do pastors take a day off at all? Down …
We
did do a walk. Well, it was kind of off
and on. We stopped to chat with two old
guys a few streets over who have lived in the neighborhood for years. In fact we reminisced about “the old days” in
the neighborhood. And then we stopped to
talk with one of the fire fighters living around here, Jonathan. He was watering his grass. I really do like the way people have been
drawn together …real Corona neighborhoods. Up …
Speaking
of days off, I found out yesterday that one of our Seasiders is in the
hospital. Ed Jackson, whose wife died
just last year causing him to move to Tomball to be near his daughter, was down
in Galveston at his old house when he had a stroke. He was rushed to UTMB where he is actually
doing OK. At least he seemed OK when I
talked to him on the phone. It is very
frustrating as a pastor not being able to visit him in the hospital. One of the safety measures of the Corona
Society. I’m worried how that will play
out when Chris has her MRI. She’s pretty
claustrophobic. Last time she had one I
had to sit in the room with her and keep my hand on her leg. And if for some reason her issues end up with
her in the hospital, I will be faced with my same pastoral quandary if they
don’t let me stay with her. Ah well,
that one’s not a problem yet. Don’t make
it a problem until it becomes a problem.
Down …
And
not long after we got home from our walk, we had some special visitors. Cailyn and April were out on a walk and stopped
by. Actually their boxer Tillie was
taking them for a walk. Apparently
Tillie had a little attempted altercation with a German Shepherd they passed. Tillie pulled Cailyn off balance, so April
was hanging on to the leash. Good
thing. Freddy was ready to defend some
territory against the gigantic interloper.
Up …
Oh,
we got our personalized letter from President Trump yesterday, too. Looks like he signed it in a big ol’ black
magic marker. He even signed the back
side too … in Spanish. He was just
letting us know that he was sending us our Corona Stimulus Check. Thanks, President Trump. Of course we received the check several weeks
ago. Up …
“Ups
win.”
Hebrews
10:23 says, “Let us hold unswervingly to
the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.”
Father,
thank you for the chance to see April and Cailyn and Tillie and Jonathan and
those two old guys we reminisced with about the neighborhood. Amen.
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