Looking for the Ark and Noah

Late last night the rain began.  It rained all night and then all day.  We just snuggled in until 1 when Evelyn had to go for therapy.   I just sat in the car and caught up on my daily Bible reading.  I have only 2 days to finish the year.  I finished the year one day early.  Oh, did I mention it was still raining?  I had taken my computer and was able to work on the message for Sunday next.  The appointment which had started at 1:15 was not finished until 2:45.  From there we went to HEB for some items needed for the beef Wellington that Evelyn wants to make this week.  We will try to find someone who will come for the gourmet dinner.  Did I mention that it was still raining?  We brought our groceries home and snuggled back in.  During one gap in the rain, I went to the hall to get our mail and our neighbor Judy’s.  She has been really sick all week. She coughs and wheezes when I deliver her mail.  We keep offering to bring her some food, but she says others have brought her many things.  We stayed indoors and listened to the continuing rain while watching TV New Year specials.  Oh yes, we went to bed during the rain.

New Year’s Eve day greeted us with–your guessed it: rain.  This is drought country most of the year, but that has changed since November.  I heard some foolish native say that they had enough rain.  I wonder where he spends most of his days during the summer.  These people need every drop they can get.  We slept late and then went to the second day of therapy.  Yesterday they had hurt Evelyn by twisting her legs and spine.  She had also learned yesterday that the therapist, Dennis from Philippines, said he thinks she has inflammation of the sacroiliac, causing her sciatica.  Today she wasn’t hurt like she was yesterday.  I drove to San Juan to get our license plate and ask some questions about how to make some of the bells and whistles ring and whistle.  I also had some coffee and brought a couple of cookies home.  I thought I would be late but was half an hour early.  We left came home and watched the news while waiting for time to go to the New Year’s Eve worship service.  We were blessed by the joy of ending the year by partaking of Holy Communion—the Lord’s Body and Blood.  We noticed our friends, Ed and Nona Drews, and invited them to our home for a late supper of lasagna.  They accepted the invitation and joined us.  We all got hooked on watching “Johnny Football Manziel” play football for Texas A&M and watched until after 10:30.  We had decided last week to dkip the party at the hall for the first time in recent memory.  We were awake until almost midnight but didn’t watch any of the national celebration.  By the way, the rain had turned to drizzle but had stopped by 8 PM.