Still Number One
Bus 5 beat the competition again yesterday! We had 31 less than we had last week. So our number was 32 with 1 first time visitor. The crowd was much more manageable and we enjoyed the ride.
I was a little discouraged because on Saturday, I had spent quite a while visiting with one of the mothers and she promised me that she would come on Sunday morning. At one of the apartments, I approached a boy that used to ride a while back. He has PROMISED me for two weeks that he would ride. Neither one of these came!
I'm sure that time change affected our numbers so hopefully we will be back up next week.
I was excited to have one of the new couples that just got saved and baptized come up to Mike and let him know that he had worked with Shawn at Circuit City and Ultimate Electronics and he was a good guy!! What a small world. Maybe we need to reach out a little more to this particular family!!
We had storms last night and about the time we started to leave for ensemble practice, a huge dark cloud began and we came under tornado warnings. We got Grandma into the basement, although I will say that if the tornado had been on us, we would have all died. She struggles to get down all those steps. I sure wish we had been able to get the basement finished so she could have her own place with everything on one level. I really don't know how I am going to care for her if she becomes permanently disabled which seems to be fast approaching. At least if she were down in the basement, she could even go outside without managing any steps. One of the men from her old church that is a carpenter had promised that he would finish out that basement. He even got her some cabinets that he saved from another house but I think we have all given up hope on that ever happening. God knows about this!!
Back to the tornado update...we did have quite a bit of rain and wind and as we have a battery powered radio in the basement, we were able to hear the local radio station that had people calling in on cellphones, giving reports on the damage. There were quite a few reports. This was very scary to Grandma who imagined we were in the midst of a tornado ravaged area with electric wires down on every hand. Mike went on to church but I decided to stay so that Grandma would not feel so frightened.
Oh boy!!! It is 7:55 in the morning and I just got a phone call. It was one of the kids on my bus. She is 6 years old. She said she was just calling all her friends!!!! Wow....what a privilege, to be called her friend and yet my gut feeling says this is not a good thing. I don't really have time for talking to six year olds and keeping up with everything!
Let's see, I have Bible reading, cooking breakfast for grandma, grocery shopping, laundry, house cleaning, phone calls, cooking, changing bed clothes, getting all the garbage out to the street, making arrangements to get the oil changed! Well, so much for gathering the garbage. The garbage man came early today!
Matthew 6:34
"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."
I was a little discouraged because on Saturday, I had spent quite a while visiting with one of the mothers and she promised me that she would come on Sunday morning. At one of the apartments, I approached a boy that used to ride a while back. He has PROMISED me for two weeks that he would ride. Neither one of these came!
I'm sure that time change affected our numbers so hopefully we will be back up next week.
I was excited to have one of the new couples that just got saved and baptized come up to Mike and let him know that he had worked with Shawn at Circuit City and Ultimate Electronics and he was a good guy!! What a small world. Maybe we need to reach out a little more to this particular family!!
We had storms last night and about the time we started to leave for ensemble practice, a huge dark cloud began and we came under tornado warnings. We got Grandma into the basement, although I will say that if the tornado had been on us, we would have all died. She struggles to get down all those steps. I sure wish we had been able to get the basement finished so she could have her own place with everything on one level. I really don't know how I am going to care for her if she becomes permanently disabled which seems to be fast approaching. At least if she were down in the basement, she could even go outside without managing any steps. One of the men from her old church that is a carpenter had promised that he would finish out that basement. He even got her some cabinets that he saved from another house but I think we have all given up hope on that ever happening. God knows about this!!
Back to the tornado update...we did have quite a bit of rain and wind and as we have a battery powered radio in the basement, we were able to hear the local radio station that had people calling in on cellphones, giving reports on the damage. There were quite a few reports. This was very scary to Grandma who imagined we were in the midst of a tornado ravaged area with electric wires down on every hand. Mike went on to church but I decided to stay so that Grandma would not feel so frightened.
Oh boy!!! It is 7:55 in the morning and I just got a phone call. It was one of the kids on my bus. She is 6 years old. She said she was just calling all her friends!!!! Wow....what a privilege, to be called her friend and yet my gut feeling says this is not a good thing. I don't really have time for talking to six year olds and keeping up with everything!
Let's see, I have Bible reading, cooking breakfast for grandma, grocery shopping, laundry, house cleaning, phone calls, cooking, changing bed clothes, getting all the garbage out to the street, making arrangements to get the oil changed! Well, so much for gathering the garbage. The garbage man came early today!
Matthew 6:34
"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."
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