Monday, August 12, 2019

August 12 – “Edumacrationale”


And the cousins began peeling away.  Saturday night Jachin went home with his Mom and Dad so he could be involved in the youth activities at their church Sunday morning.  That left us with five … I think.  We took the remaining crew with us to church at Seaside, of course.  Pretty good day all around there.  Fifty plus people came.  We are still having lots of out-of-towners, too.  We started back into Hosea.  That study was put on hold for the Alaska trip, so now the plan is to get through the rest of it.  I did some heavy hallway counseling as well.  One guy wants to be baptized, so we talked about his salvation.  Someone else was dealing with vocational and life in general choices.  Lots of real people just finding out they are not alone in their struggles. 

Back at home we were joined by two sets of Moms and Dads for lunch.  Cailyn returned from her family reunion.  Nathan and April brought the rice to go along with the big roast Chris had cooking in the crock pot.  Kel and Christina brought an Ezra to be part of the proceedings.  The Astros game was playing on the TV (muted) and the kids were in and out, some playing video games on tablets, others running outside or back to a different room.  Chaos.  Kids having fun.  Kind of the same thing …

I had to leave the ado to perform a funeral service in LaMarque.  One of the fire fighters’ Dads died rather suddenly last week.  I got to see a few old Seasiders while there, as well as a few fire fighters.  Love those two families …

By the time I got back home the Astros had lost in the bottom of the ninth on a walk-off homer off their closer.  Everyone but the Waco boys had gone home.  Everything was so … so … quiet.  We spent a very nice evening watching The Carbanaro Effect and a superhero movie.  Oh, and we went across the street for a while.  They have a basketball goal, and Zak has been having basketball withdrawals all week.  He and Caleb played while Brennan watched.  Then Caleb located the moon and Saturn and Jupiter using the Skyview App on my phone.  Gotta throw in a little edumacrationale activity, you know. 

Isaiah 26:4 says, “Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord is the Rock Eternal.”

Father, thank you for a great time with our youngsters.  Please ride with us to Waco so we can get these last two boys safely home.  Amen.

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