May 16 – “Comforting …”

Yesterday was a … comforting … sort of day.  Not sure if that’s the right word, but it’ll do for now. 

 

We started the day by going to church.  Certainly comforting in the spiritual sense.  Kel continued his sermon series on the Sermon on the Mount.  Well, on Matthew 6:33 to be exact.  Hard to beat good ol’ “seek ye first …”  And of course it was also really good to see all the familiar faces.  Relationally comforting … is that a thing?  There were a few faces that were missing, though.  Hope all is well with them.

 

After church we stuck around for dinner on the grounds.  Physically comforting, right?  Hey, we all gotta eat.  And as usual, everyone who brought something really knocked it out of the park.  Glad we were in town on the third Sunday.

 

After church we came back home for Astros and a nap.  Verlander was pitching for the Astros, so there was certainly a degree of comfort in watching him pitch and set down the bad guys.  He even had another no-hitter going for five or six innings.  And then there is the comfort-able couch I was sitting on to watch the game.  Nice place for a nap.

 

We did have to make a quick trip over to Randall’s to pick up a few prescriptions for Chris.  It’s comforting to know she has what she needs to keep her heart stuff under control.  And while we were there, I picked up an Antone’s poboy sandwich for supper.  Guess I’m back to repeating myself on the physical comfort again.  But have you ever had one of those poboys?  We used to have to drive to the Antone’s Deli to get one of them way back when we lived in Houston.  Good stuff.

 

Much later last night we went outside to stare at the moon.  Not that we do that often, but it was blood moon night.  Full moon and total eclipse.  And it all happened at a reasonable hour.  By 10:30 the whole moon was behind the shadow.  And it really was red this time.  How was that comforting?  The God who made that moon and the earth that shadowed is still in control.  I’ll take that comfort any day.

 

Romans 8:1 says, “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”

 

Father, thank you for all the expressions of comfort we experienced yesterday.  Amen.