Whew.... I'm already out of breath just thinking about the schedule ahead over the next week. First, looming on the horizon about three or four weeks out is my daughter Brooke's wedding. This will be our second wedding in less than seven months (our daughter Emily got married back in May). To say there's a lot to do is putting it mildly.
Today I'm headed out to a friend's farm to cut trees to use as decorations. We have to have about twenty-twenty-five small trees that will be stripped of their leaves and painted white. The will be illuminated with blue and clear lights and have snowflakes hung from them. Sounds pretty, doesn't it.
Tomorrow is going to be one busy day. I will teach my class at 9. Preach at 10 and then conduct a funeral at 2 followed by a wedding at 3:30 and then back to preach at 5! Then I have a funeral to conduct Monday morning at 10. See what I mean.
Thankfully, once that's done on Monday I should be able to take a breath. We have a devotional at church Tuesday night and then Wednesday morning we will leave for North Carolina and Thanksgiving at Tami's parent's house.
I am thankful for the health God has allowed me to have - for the improvement in my eyesight and the stamina to keep going. I am thankful for friends who trust me enough to ask me to speak for the memorial of a precious wife and mother. I am thankful for opportunities to teach and preach the most beautiful message in the whole world - the gospel of Jesus. I am thankful for marriage - the new marriage I'll officiate over on Sunday and my own of over twenty-eight years. I am thankful for family and for the opportunity to be together over the holidays. Yes, it's going to be busy but I'm looking forward to every moment!
That's the way I see it!
Today I'm headed out to a friend's farm to cut trees to use as decorations. We have to have about twenty-twenty-five small trees that will be stripped of their leaves and painted white. The will be illuminated with blue and clear lights and have snowflakes hung from them. Sounds pretty, doesn't it.
Tomorrow is going to be one busy day. I will teach my class at 9. Preach at 10 and then conduct a funeral at 2 followed by a wedding at 3:30 and then back to preach at 5! Then I have a funeral to conduct Monday morning at 10. See what I mean.
Thankfully, once that's done on Monday I should be able to take a breath. We have a devotional at church Tuesday night and then Wednesday morning we will leave for North Carolina and Thanksgiving at Tami's parent's house.
I am thankful for the health God has allowed me to have - for the improvement in my eyesight and the stamina to keep going. I am thankful for friends who trust me enough to ask me to speak for the memorial of a precious wife and mother. I am thankful for opportunities to teach and preach the most beautiful message in the whole world - the gospel of Jesus. I am thankful for marriage - the new marriage I'll officiate over on Sunday and my own of over twenty-eight years. I am thankful for family and for the opportunity to be together over the holidays. Yes, it's going to be busy but I'm looking forward to every moment!
That's the way I see it!
