Archive | May, 2010

A Great Day in many ways

3 May

Yesterday was a great day with a rough start.  At early worship, I was REALLY feeling the fact that we finished unloading the car around 11:30 pm on Saturday night.  And I am sure anyone who knows me could tell it was tough!!  But after my second cup of coffee, all was good!

Church council made more progress on the policy manual.  We, the staff, DESPERATELY need the policy manual to help us.  The more we grow as a church, the harder it can be to juggle everything we have to juggle on the calendar …

Last night, we baptized 16 people.  I don’t remember ever baptizing that many at one time.  It was a good balance of ages, too.  Several children, several youth, and several adults.

Deacons meeting afterward was productive, too.  A good discussion of deacon of the week duties, and taking responsibility for one’s own duties.  AND IT WAS DEACON LED (in other words, it wasn’t one of the staff members leading that discussion).

Then I walked into my house at 9:30pm looking like a zombie …

WHAT A WEEKEND …

2 May

Okay, first things first:  Krissy is HOME!  She did really well this semester, BUT. . .  I have NEVER seen so much STUFF crammed into a dormroom.  In my LIFE!!  And I have moved two sisters in and out of Clemson, so I know “girls need more things” but C’MON!!!  We got back around 11:00pm last night, unloaded, and collapsed.

I finally woke up this morning sometime after first service.  I was here, and I preached (I think), but I finally woke up.  Hope I didn’t say anything stupid.

We got a little more work done at Mom and Dad’s, but probably worked more on storing Krissy’s stuff than improving the house.

Dad had an interesting weekend.  He really struggles with his memory, and one of the meds they’ve put him on (Provigil) is over $500 per month.  We are trying some different avenues to get that cost down.  We rented the van this weekend and it taught us that we probably WON’T buy one anytime soon. It would be very difficult for Mom to do all of that on her own.

His physical condition is okay.  I don’t know if I would say the same about his mental condition.   The nurse at the VA told me to prepare myself that things probably wouldn’t get much better than they are right now. I sure hope she is wrong.

So, here I sit in my office between worship services.  I am so tired I could probably go to sleep right now.  But there is too much to do today for that!

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