Sharing the love of Christ

Sunday was a real blessing.  I had brought Pastor Wayne to preach for me and distribute Holy Communion.  It was strange (and the first time) to be sitting in the front row listening to a sermon at trail’s End.  I was really blessed by his message and the Lord’s supper.  I was also blessed to learn he and Jean, his wife, had attended a Cursillo in Iowa years ago.  It is exciting to meet people who have been blessed in the same venue as I have been.  We went to the brunch in the park for our meal.   After eating, we went to visit a sick woman who had been instrumental in beginning our worship services about 10 years ago.  We thought she had been depressed and was becoming a recluse.  She had not become depressed but had reason to be when she told us what physical maladies she had.  We left her and drove home to rest in the afternoon.  I watched some of the NFL playoff games before having our evening popcorn and a movie. During the afternoon, Evelyn had talked with both Stacy and Emily.  Elizabeth and Rosalie wanted to talk also so that we knew what they wanted for their birthday gifts.   Most of the comedies are so ridiculous and vulgar that we can’t stand to watch them to the end.  We ended up just watching reruns of Duck Dynasty.  The blessing was that we hadn’t seen them. 

Evelyn wanted to go to the Silver Sneakers on Monday so we went—late.  The room was full and Evelyn had the last chair, so I just went to walk in the parking lot and visit some of the stores in the small mall.  We finished there and drove to Harlingen to meet John and Sue at the health fair there.  We went early but were still so far back in the line that we left.  Sue had been driven by the chance to get a T-shirt.  We weren’t disappointed to miss out.  We went to Wendy’s for a 99 cent sandwich special.  From there we drove to Raymondville for Evelyn to receive therapy.  I slept in the car and caught up with my Bible reading before coming home.  Evelyn was really bruised and sore from the treatment.  She doesn’t feel like doing much after the sessions and we didn’t.  We just stayed at home.  We also had a SKYPE session with Andrew from UK.  He wanted to tell us about his mission trip to NYC with the Navigators, the Christian group.  He told how he had prayed with several homeless people and met one of his Facebook friends he had not previously met.  He sent us a picture of her but I can’t find it to post.  She is an oriental girl that is studying at Harvard.  It is a real blessing for him and us to be involved of being a missionary for Christ.

Tuesday found Evelyn very sore.  Even thought the therapist told her yesterday that he thinks he has found the problem, she elected to not go to therapy here in Weslaco today.  I wanted to ride to Trail’s End to give some hymn titles to Sharon, but the wind was too strong forcing me to drive instead.  I spent more than an hour with them discussing worship, their spiritual walk and Cursillo.  Dan has refused to attend in the past partly due to the secrecy of it all.  I told him everything I could remember, hoping it would make him more open to it.  I came home for lunch to find that Evelyn had indeed cancelled her appointment.  The people who told us about the therapy location were very disappointed as was I.  We rested in the afternoon and went to the “Welcome Back” dinner at 4:30.  We had a good time visiting with the half of the park who decided to eat in the hall.  The other half opted to carry out their dinners because it was thought at first that there were not enough chairs for the people who wanted to eat.  We came home and entertained our next door neighbors for some wine.  They came.  One of the women was ill but he husband came.  We enjoyed talking until 8.  Evelyn was still hurting and went to bed after they left.