Ann, Thanks.

I got to vacation for three days at my own house. My friend, Ann, came Thursday night and stayed through Sunday afternoon.
We walked and talked and ate and walked and talked and took in Jacob's Dream and talked and walked and ate and rocked in my backyard and talked and watched Little Shop of Horrors and talked and worshipped and talked and ate again and talked and said goodbye. Lucy said it was like us being at the beach without the beach.
My favorite moments happened as we worshipped together. I have always loved singing with Ann....her alto and my soprano...there have been moments when we had to do that alone and others that our voices blended with those that we love and with our children or with our church family or as we lead our church family in worship or as we sang for a wedding or as we sang a silly song about Ladies Against Fanny Floss.
I loved looking Ann in the eye and saying the words....the body of Christ and the blood of Jesus...or as the movie clip used in worship....the peace of God. I loved that it means that we are family and that we will always be related and that we know each other's stories. I love that we have gathered around the table in many places and with many people that are like us and very unlike us.
I love that we have learned about freedom together and that our lives have evolved and moved to deeper places. That we have learned to never incubate fluff.
I love that when we are together there is no pressure...just comfort and companionship.
Can't wait til we get to do it again.

Just Some Thoughts on a Saturday Morning

I feel bad that I haven't blogged for awhile. This has been a busy week and I have been sick. I really don't like to take medicine and tried to avoid the antibiotic part of it but only got worse, so I am now taking an antibiotic. I even felt so bad yesterday that I had the nurse that I work with give me a steroid injection before I went home. I had the best night's sleep that I have had all week and this morning I feel better than I have for awhile. Okay, it is good to take medicine when you need to. I just don't like the overuse of meds that our society has gotten into. I think we doing harm by overusing antibiotics and steroids and many other things. But there are times that you have to use them and I think that I waited a little too long before I succumbed to the cure.

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I just finished reading "The Summer of My German Soldier". I read it a long time ago and gave it to Lucy for her birthday and wanted to read it again after she read it. This book takes place during WWII in the deep south. Powerful story about making family for yourself and survival. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it. It is by Bette Greene. I want to go to the library and check her other novels.

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Ann is coming this week and I can't wait. I can't wait to sit and talk and walk and talk and eat and talk and introduce to my friends and talk. You think that we have some catching up to do?

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Tim's Uncle Claud passed away this week. We just saw him this summer at a family reunion. It was good to get to know him better. We tramped through cemeteries together and he was a trooper....fun to be with and lively with conversation. I know that his family will miss his presence. I love how he spent the day on Sunday. He went to church and then out to lunch and then had a bad headache and went to the hospital. He had a major stroke and then was in a coma. They took him off life support on Tuesday and he quietly passed away. I love that up to the last minute he was living his life. He had been a Church of Christ minister. That had been his life and that is how he spent his last coherent hours. God is good.