Accepting blessings

Sunday continued the blessing in our worship services. We had 45 in attendance again. The Lord in His mercy has held our numbers right around there all season. The widower of a couple who used to come returned to be with us this morning and it was nice to give him a hug. I will try to give him a chaplain tract next week if he returns. He belongs to our Synod and doesn’t like my serving Holy Communion since I am not ordained. We went to the grocery to get a rotisserie chicken to serve to our guests. He was in radio broadcasting in Canada and was right on time. We had cheese ball for hors doerves and then the dinner. It was much better than yesterday’s. We enjoyed being with them. His wife had just returned from Winnipeg late last night and were tired. They stayed for a couple of hours and then left. We were tired and went directly to bed for our nap. I spent some time working on next week’s sermon and order of service. We took a plate of cookies across the street to welcome the new neighbors. He was a teacher of instrumental music and she did alterations in Iowa. We had some leftovers for dinner, and then Evelyn called Emily. Pieder wanted to talk with me so the three of us did. He and Emily were both sick but wanted to talk anyway. We did but I don’t know how much progress was really made. I always think I am the one who has to change but that is merely my perception. I need to work on next week’s sermon quite hard because the outline I follow has many things in it that lead me to some points I don’t agree with. I want to play golf tomorrow morning and work some tomorrow afternoon before the New Year’s Eve party.