March 24 – “Needville Day”

Today was Needville Day.  Chris, Nathan, and I (oh, and Scooter) took our trucks and a borrowed trailer to Needville to pick up some furniture and clothes that Chris' cousins collected for us.  Nathan and April will be moving into an apartment on the first, so we wanted to see what kinds of things they still need.  Getting there wasn't too hard.  Nathan missed a turn, but we all eventually got to the storage facility.  But we discovered that Chris' aunt had the wrong key.  She made a few phone calls, but to no avail.  She wanted to talk to the owner (a distant cousin), but he was at lunch.  So we adjourned to a local eatery.  Great hamburgers – the big homemade kind.   I guess the owner still wasn't there when we got back, because we finally had to ask the facility manager to cut off the lock.  Interesting cost.  $25 to cut it off.  $5 for "labor."  So what was cutting it off if not labor?  And besides, he got to use a really cool power tool.  Anyway, we brought back a few chairs, a dinette set, two dressers, a box spring and mattress, some books, and a lot of clothes.  Stored them in a church friend's garage.  We are also going to use that garage to store the stuff we have in Mom's garage.    We stopped off at our house on the way back to Omega Bay.  The windows guys were there.  Wow.  They have already installed all but three windows.  They look great.  And the back door is awesome, too.  An interesting thing happened while we were there.  The head windows guy called out to us, "Hey, Kelley and Chris?"  Now all he wanted was to tell us he was leaving.  But the thing was, he called us by our first names.  We just met him yesterday.  I got to thinking about that.  The only reason he had for being familiar with us was the introduction from our contractor.  He had a relationship with John.  We had a relationship with John.  That was the basis of our new relationship with each other.  And because we both trust John and like John, we assumed we could trust and like each other.  Wow.  What a picture of the church.  We can trust and like each other because we trust and like Jesus.   Acts 2:42-47 says, "They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.  Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles.  All the believers were together and had everything in common.  Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need.  Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved."   Father, thank you for the church.  I need someone to trust.  And like.  Amen.