reunion with a widow

Sunday’s blessings just keep getting better and better. We had 61 in attendance for worship! This is the most we have ever had except when the men’s chorus sings and brings their families. We served Holy Communion and there are a few who don’t partake. I think they don’t believe in the real presence of the Lord’s Body in the bread and wine. We still have an uplifting service. Our Bible study is going well too. We came home for a short time before going to get Lois at the Lutheran Church. We agreed to take her to the lunch buffet at Harold’s Country Kitchen. As it happened, she had met some friends at church who took her to the restaurant, but we still paid for her lunch. Her husband, Lionell, died this past summer. We were friends with them in previous years. She told Evelyn about Lionell’s last days while I talked with her friends who turned out to be from Alberta, Canada and are staying at the park next door to ours. We didn’t take Lois home because she wanted to go to the flea market and we were too dressed up to go. We came home instead and I watched the Colts and Cowboys lose their playoff games. I also got a call from another Purdue fan who lives here in the park, bragging that Joe Tiller, the current Purdue football coach, will retire at the end of next season. People’s past successes are of no value in the present. This coach has taken the Purdue team to 10 post season bowls during the past 11 seasons, twice as many as they have been invited to in the school’s history. Admittedly, they haven’t won many of them, but there aren’t many schools that have gone to more. We spent the afternoon relaxing, except for the walk we took around the park. Evelyn spent the evening cutting out the pattern for Stephen’s knight costume.