Josh’s family arrived Friday night around ten (Josh came, too). Then Kel and his clan joined us Saturday morning at the church to set up for the big anniversary Sunday celebration. And we were all joined by Seasiders ready and willing to pitch in. Former worship pastor Andy Stevens arrived a day early and pitched in to help Jim out a bit with the sound system. Lauren was in true leadership mode as she handed out chores for everyone. Chairs were stacked and pushed to the back wall. Tables were set up in the worship center and outside under the retreat center where we will meet today. Around 200 chairs were assembled outside as well. And since the group that had been staying in the retreat center decided to leave early, we even got a jump on cleaning and sanitizing in there. I worked on cleaning out my office, and with all the young, strong arms, finally got a lot of stuff taken upstairs to the storage room. The point of clearing out the office was actually two-fold. First, I was searching for items to use on the Seaside memorabilia table. But second, I figured at some point there would be other things that would need to be stacked out of sight, out of mind. I wasn’t wrong. Oh, and I realized that the flash drive with the slide show phots was not in the bag where I expected it to be. No idea what happened to it. Fortunately, I had another one here at home, so I made another copy. Hopefully, this one will make the journey this morning. Everything looks great. Just needs some finishing touches this morning and we will be good to go.
Back at home, Josh and Christi brought in some
pizza for lunch. Before long Nathan and
Cailyn joined us (April was at work). And Cailyn brought along her
new little puppy, Marley. She was the life
of the party, of course (Marley, I mean).
We had some drama in the neighborhood later in the afternoon. Josh and Christi and AnnaGrace were going for
a walk, but suddenly, around the corner, a red truck careened into our neighbor’s
yard, tearing up a section of the yard and barely missing the fire
hydrant. The truck came to a stop, so I
joined Josh in the front yard to see what was happening. The driver got out briefly, then got back in started
wildly swing, connecting on numerous accounts with the face and body of the woman
in the front seat. He got in four or
five pretty hard shots. To her credit,
she tried to fight back. She got one
swing in on him after he paused. She
finally got out of the truck, and he sped away in the direction of Moody
Gardens. She started walking in the opposite
direction. Needless to say, by this time
Josh was on the phone with the police and I had a picture of the license
plate. We walked down to survey the
damage, and lo and behold, what should Josh find, but the guy’s wallet. He had dropped it when he exited the
truck. We also struck up a conversation
with our neighbor who had been in his front yard washing his car. He had seen the whole thing as well. While we chatted with him, we saw the truck
out on Jones Road heading the opposite direction. Josh turned over the wallet to the police
when they arrived, and sure enough, they caught the guy within the hour. He was a tourist from Pasadena (The Texas version, not California). He now faces two counts of
felony DWI. Seems there were two children
in the truck as well. Whew. Not the kind of action you expect on a lazy
Saturday afternoon, but … action nonetheless.
Psalm 100:2 says, “Worship
the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.”
Father, please watch over the children involved in
that incident yesterday. And thank you
for Josh’s quick thinking and skills of observation to discover the wallet in
time to get it to police. Amen.
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