I have another anecdote from the Hike for Hope on Saturday.
It starts when I realized that The Galveston County Satanists had a booth. They were shaping and giving away balloons. Black and red balloons. Apparently, Satanists are among those groups that tend to have a lot of suicides.
One of the local Galveston churches requested a booth next to them. Great try. They didn’t get it though. In fact they were across
the field from them. But the Christians went over and chatted with them. They loved on the Satanists and showed them great kindness. Very Christlike. Nice job.
After church yesterday we had six of our grandkids (and their parents) come over for a little family Easter celebration a week early. Chris had a big roast in the crockpot, and she and April and Christina added rice and green beans and a tray of vegetables and a salad later. Good stuff. Oh. And special thanks to April for two things. She washed all the dishes and more significantly … she brought sopapilla cheesecake. That one is a real favorite. I tried to hide it, but once it was discovered, it was devoured.
After lunch the kids all gathered around the table and dyed some Easter eggs. While that was going on, Jachin joined his uncles and good ol’ DadDad outside in hiding a bunch of those plastic eggs. He’s just old enough to be too old to hunt eggs, but not old enough to refuse his chance to set aside a handful for himself. Hey. We insisted. He’ll always be Nana’s little grandbaby. Those eggs, by the way, were filled with sneaky candy and even some actual change. Sneaky candy. That’s the kind that sounds like money when you shake it. You know - jelly beans and the like. Hey. Those youngsters are getting slick in their old age. Gotta at least try to stay a step ahead of ‘em.
John 12:13 says, So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!”
Father, thank you for the example of that church at the hike. Bless them for that. Amen.
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