October 12 – “And so it continues”

We woke yesterday to some wintry weather here on the Island.  The wind was blowing and the temperature had plummeted all the way into the low 70’s.  Terrible, just terrible.  It has worked its way back up to the mid-70’s this morning, though, and by mid-afternoon it should add ten or more degrees to that figure.  Much more like a Galveston Thursday afternoon in the Fall. 

The hurricane relief efforts are still continuing.  In fact, I got word that the Jamaica Janes out in Jamaica Beach joined forces with Seaside to get the remaining donations organized and boxed up for the trip to the Alvin ministry grounds.  Looks like they did an awful lot of work, too.  It is great to have yet another hurricane relief partner stepping up.  Thank you, Jamaica Janes.

We got a call yesterday afternoon from Nathan.  Seems he had some AC workers over at his house who wanted us to come check out their work.  It was none other than Lynn and Jim from church and Lynn’s son.  They were cleaning out Nathan’s AC vents and coils, because April has been smelling some mold.  Looks like it took them the better part of the day.  Guess we’ll see how it all turned out when April’s sensitive nose got home. 

While I worked on a sermon for Sunday, Chris headed out on an adventure in Texas.  She is searching for another quilt shop.  Sadly, the one she has been using was in Dickinson, and was flooded out during Hurricane Harvey.  She already had several quilts in process, so she needed to find some other material to get some things finished.  She went to one that she knew about in Texas City, but apparently their stock wasn’t all that great.  She said there was supposed to be one in Lake Jackson, too, but that one may be in as bad a shape as the one in Dickinson.  Ah, the trials and tribulations of an avid quilter in the flooded wilderness.  She did manage to make her way to Hobby Lobby.  That was for an entirely different project she’s working on, though.  Results to be announced.

1 John 3:14 says, “We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death.”

Father, thank you for the hearts of ministry that stepped up to work at the church the other day.  Bless them all for their efforts.  Amen.