Sunday
Worship was better today. Communion was served and the message was good. Much of it had to do with my attitude. I was invited to lunch with Howard and his wife Jody. I had met Howard the week before at a breakfast with (former) parishioners.
Lunch went well. Nice people. They play in a praise band. He on guitar, she on keyboards. They have two grown sons and are lifelong residents of Columbia City.
They were curious about my trip. Folks who have stayed in one place don't often understand my pleasure in the new. It is not so hard for me. We were poor and moved often. I attended five different grade schools, lived in and around Cincinnati and finished grade and high school in Wisconsin. Home is not where I lived at one time--it is where I live at this time. Today Indiana is home. Soon Mexico may be home.
This simple cot
is my home tonight--
and with me--the moon!
Of course the house must sell first. Today I was reading in James, looking for this passage:
Come now you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit."; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that."
James 4:13-15 (NKJV)
I wanted to remind myself that nothing is guaranteed. I merely hope to live in Mexico. There are no certainties.
Of all the books in the bible I turn to James most often. James is unafraid to scold. I often need scolding.
Reaching then recoiling
from fire, the child is unburned--
A shouted warning!
Still hot. It will cool down to 90 tomorrow!
A stale crust of bread
still makes a great feast
for a starving man.
Though simple and stale
a crust of bread--quite a feast
to a starving man!
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"Dear me! I am not certain quite
That even now I've got it right."
Laura Elizabeth Richards
Eletelephony
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