October 18 – “Gotta get on the move”

We were back over the top in church again.  Well, by “top” I mean 50.  That has been a really good number for us lately.  We had several guests, including a Seaside family that moved to Pittsburgh a while back.  Always great to see Seasiders come back home to say hi.  Our guest preacher Jordan was back, and he did great again.  Talked all about suffering this time.  Oh, and Kel was back as well.  Good to have him out of quarantine and back in the swing of things.  He was still recuperating, though.  Hence, the guest speaker. 

 

After church Kel took our car and hit the road to head to Houston to be with Christina.  We took the Littles.  You know, that affectionate reference Kel and Christina have for his youngest is going to have to change before long.  Josiah getting on up there.  He’s already in the youth realm.  Noa is becoming quite the young lady.  I guess a case could be made for including Ezra in the Littles category, but don’t tell him that.  He thinks he is just as big as his siblings.  The kiddos hung out at our house for a while and played video games with Brennan before we took them on home.

 

While we waited for Kel we tried to make ourselves useful.  Cleaned out the refrigerator this time.  They have been receiving some really good meals from folks they know, so we needed to make room for the leftovers that were beginning to accumulate.  They had two options yesterday.  Pulled pork and coleslaw or pizza and pizza salad (yes, pizza salad is a thing.  Just throw some sliced pepperoni on top, and voila!).  Guess which was most favored?  We finally got all the youngers ones bathed and ready for bed.  The plan was to have Noa and Ezra in bed and asleep by seven.  The in-bed part we did OK on.  Well, for Noa, anyway.  Ezra chose to settle in under a table in their room.  OK.  No sleeping happened, though.  They were determined to wait for Daddy to get home.  Fortunately, he made it around 8:15, so it wasn’t too late.  They even got to FaceTime Mom before bed.  A real treat.

 

And speaking of Mom, here’s the Christina update for the day.  The pneumonia is still present, so the docs ordered some more antibiotics and steroids.  They were going to bring the high flow oxygen machine back into the room, but apparently she doesn’t need it at all.  Just a precaution.  The docs and nurses are all insisting that it is high time she does some twisting and turning and coughing and walking and in general exercising of her lungs.  Gotta get on the move so she can get on the move …

 

Proverbs 4:23 says, “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”

 

Father, thank you again for the good reports we are getting on Christina.  Please give her a sense of reassurance now that she can handle the next steps toward recovery.  Amen.