Here’s
a little social distancing strangeness:
1. We realized that without noticing it, we were
staggering our noonish neighborhood walk times with the Geran's. Can’t be out at the same time, I guess. Actually they usually do the noon thing
because of how they have to work from home.
We generally get outside much earlier in the morning.
2. We received a few really important pieces of
mail. One was a survey from the National
Cremation Service. Are they trying to
tell us something? The other was a
notification that it was time to go online and complete our 2020 census
information under penalty of having them next mail it to us by snail mail, at
which point if we do not send that in, they will be forced to send someone to
our house to collect the information in person.
Horror of all horrors. We can’t
have that. I took care of it right
away. But you know, what better
timing? Who has anything better to do
than spend ten minutes telling the government stuff they already know?
Speaking
of mail, I went by to check the mail for Seaside. There was one envelope in the box (along with
one piece of junk mail). The envelope
contained just one thing. A random
donation check. I went upstairs
to the retreat center to let the bug guy in, and found a check the last church
to use the place left us. And later that afternoon a Seasider stopped
by the house to drop off a tithe. So we
are not meeting Sunday, and our offering is already almost a thousand dollars. Wow.
I
have received lots of encouragement to do a live stream of some kind for a
Bible study Sunday morning. Thing is,
most of the votes included one condition … that I somehow include a visual
verse. So, being the incredibly technologically
incompetent oaf that I am, I have been working on a way to screen cast to our
TV so I can do a visual verse. I’m not
even sure I completely understand how to do FaceBook live. But the effort will be there. I’ll try to be doing something around ten on
Sunday morning. You’ll have to YouTube
your own favorite worship songs, though.
And I haven’t figured out yet how to connect it to the Seaside FaceBook
page. In the meantime, I guess you’ll
just have to friend me to see it. I do
appreciate Pam bringing me a tripod to attach my phone to. Otherwise it was a selfie stick duct taped to
a chair …
Psalms
51:10 says, “Create in me a clean heart,
O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”
Father,
with all this virus stuff going on, we all could use some cleaning up down
here. What better place to start than with
our hearts? Amen.
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