I had a whole new definition of “early morning” yesterday. I got up at 3:45. A good friend was having open heart surgery, and his check-in time was five. I got there at 4:45. See? Early morning.
After praying with them I hurried back home. Well, I did make a quick stop to fill up with gas. Why the rush? We had to be in Waco by 1:00 for a funeral. That meant wading through Houston traffic really close to rush hour.
We made our way onto the Causeway around 7:30.
We hit downtown Houston around 8:30. It was slow going for a while. The map app insisted we were on the fastest route, though, so we stuck it out. That slowdown added about 20 minutes to our ETA, but we were on the road again and moving,
The regular Buc-ees stop went off without much of a hitch. They still had bacon, egg, and cheese biscuits, so I was happy. But then I started an intensive search for those amazing cinnamon rolls. Nowhere to be found. We located a stocker and asked her what was going on. Sadly, the icing had not been delivered. What? That’s the best part of those things. Oh well. Guess I’ll try again on our way home today.
The funeral went well. It was great seeing Lanny and Joyce. Several Gideons were there, including the guy who runs a Galveston Funeral home. We even saw the guy who was pastor at FBC Galveston before the guy who was pastor when I started going there as a senior in high school (55 years ago). He was a pretty old dude.
Afterwards we went to Whataburger for a late lunch. Chris really wanted a vanilla shake to go with her Whataburger Jr. Sorry. No shakes. The machine was down. We got our burgers to go and went back to the house.
Luke had basketball practice at 5, so I went with him. The varsity (Caleb’s team) was supposed to play their first home game of the season, but the other team canceled the night before. So they had practice instead. Of course I stayed for that, too. It wasn’t the same as a game, but I enjoyed it. I even got to operate the clock for the drills.
Caleb got home well before Josh and I. And I could see why when we walked in. Caleb’s girlfriend, Chaselyn was there. She hung out for a long time before she headed home. We gave Caleb the first part of his birthday present - a book about the American revolution. That was about all any of us could handle. We went to bed.
Isaiah 60:1 says, Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord shines over you.
Father, thanks for our safe trip up here. Could you ride with us back now? Amen.
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