Happy birthday to the Christian church on Pentecost

We were up early even though we planned to go to worship at 11. Evelyn did stretching exercises while I put together omelets for us. We wanted to eat a large breakfast early because we had been invited to a lunch for cancer survivors. We didn’t eat until around 10 and left for worship. We went to the Methodist Church in downtown Waynesville. The service centered around the Holy Spirit because today is Pentecost. That is the day that the Holy Spirit came to the disciples after Jesus was raised from the dead. The service was very inspiring and covered with red around the church. We left and drove to the Laurel Ridge Country Club for the dinner. It was a blessing too. We were seated and invited to paint a small terra cotta flower pot. We waited for some friends before going to the buffet bar. The program featured a woman singing “The Wind Beneath My Wings”. It is about a caregiver, and it occurred to me that I was Evelyn’s caregiver when she struggled with her treatments for breast cancer: surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. It was very hard on her, and I had to pick up much of the slack. I am sorry she had to suffer but thank God that I could be there for her. We then heard a poem about a butterfly’s being a carrier of dreams and were given a small envelope containing 2 butterflies that had been flown overnight from Florida. Somehow they had been numbed by almost cryogenics and were recharged by the sun when released. It was inspiring. Since we were at a Country Club, there was a golf course. When we arrived early, I saw a 4 some approach the 18th green. One of them had lost a ball in the brush and gave up on finding it. I decided to go look and found it. I also saw another in a creek but couldn’t reach it. After the program, however, I went to the car and got a club. Being determined I went back and dug it out of the creek, nearly falling in. We came home, changed clothes and worked on our mulch area. Evelyn planted some daisy and poppy seeds. We were done in time to watch “Flying to Rio”, one of the first films featuring Fred Astair dancing with Ginger Rogers. I then watched the Cubs “play” baseball against the Dodgers. We have to rise early in the morning because I have an 8:50 tee time.