anointing for healing

Wow! I turned off the alarm again last night, and we slept until 8:50! This can get to be habit forming. We had to begin preparing for our guests for lunch. The woman just had surgery on her elbow to repair damage from an accident this past summer. She had to go to Dallas to have an elbow replacement specialist who works on professional athletes repair hers. We cleaned the house, and Evelyn prepared the chicken we had left over from Thursday’s heart healthy meal. They arrived shortly after 12 but our remaining in bed caused Evelyn to get behind on the project of making our favorite hazelnut/poppy seed bread. As a result we could not eat until about 1. We enjoyed the meal and the bread and the visit. I offered to anoint Sharon with oil, and she was receptive to that. After they left and we cleaned up the kitchen, I went to invite a couple for crawfish next Saturday. They accepted and will arrive around 1 with the other couple. I also took our week’s worth of trash including the old toilet seat I had replaced. I came home to work more on tomorrow’s sermon. We had eaten so late that we were not very hungry so we went to the Dairy Queen where we used the coupon for a buy one get one free banana split I had won at the 50s dance last week. We also went to Wal-Mart for some Brita filters and other items. The service there is less than acceptable so we don’t like to go there. We waited for the cashier to get one’s from the change girl. As we waited, a little girl with two older girls threw paper from a candy she was eating on the floor. We tried to get them to understand that she should pick it up with no result. We aren’t sure the older girls could understand English; many Mexicans come here to shop on the weekends. We returned home, and I continued looking for someone to read the scriptures tomorrow. I only found one so Evelyn will have to read the other. We watched some of a movie called It Could Happen to You starring Nicholas Cage early in his career. I then watched the ending of Saturday Night Fever, an old film we had never seen. I practiced the sermon and prepared the hymns for next week so I can give them to the accompanist that will help next week. I wonder if John will be back. He has been on a cruise during the month. The weather today was more humid than yesterday but still quite pleasant. After all it is January.