August 27 – “… like ‘weird’”

After having to postpone it twice, I finally managed to keep my dentist appointment yesterday.  I have now officially had my temporary crown replaced with the permanent one.  The doc endeared herself to me with just the appropriate terminology when she pronounced herself finished.  She added, “If it starts feeling weird after a few days, the height probably just needs to be adjusted.”  I love it when she uses complicated medical terminology … like “weird.”

After lunch we made a trip into Texas.  Our first destination was the UPS distribution warehouse in LaMarque.  One of the groups who stayed in our retreat center at church accidentally took the keys home with them.  It took some doing by our center coordinator Amber, but they finally sent them back.  But they put the mailing address instead of a physical address, so UPS held it at the distribution center until someone could come pick it up.  That would be me.  At least we have them on hand once again.

Next we went up to Lifeway Christian Store to stock up on birthday cards and communion supplies.  They are going out of business.  All of them.  They have succumbed to the on-line barrage of sales marketing and will be moving to that option alone.  It’s a very sad development.  Inconvenient. 

We finished up our journey with a Sam’s run.  We are running out of supplies much quicker at church since we have been having so many people attend.  The shopping part was pretty easy.  Checking out … not so much.  The checker asked, as is her duty, if I wanted to upgrade our card for “only $27.99.”  I just as dutifully said “No thank you.”  And she proceeded to push the “yes” button.  Oops.  That meant she had to void the transaction.  And that meant a customer service manager had to be called and waited on.  Lucky for us, however, she had an assistant who was also qualified to operate a register.  So the assistant opened up the register next to us and moved us on over.  Fortunately she hadn’t removed anything from our cart.  We did make sure a manager got the void taken care of before we left the store. 

Whew.  Now if we can just find some time to go take our ride on a slingshot that the boys gave us for our birthday.  Slingshot.  Car/motorcycle.  What are we, crazy?  Yep …

1 Peter 5:6 says, “Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.”

Father, please be with the folks who work at the Lifeway stores.  Help them as they struggle to find new jobs.  Amen.