Wednesday, August 19

What a week of adjustments this has been! Returning from Mexico early Saturday evening was bad enough. Going from a high of high 70’s to a high of around 100 is pretty drastic. Sunday was Chase’s last day as he heads back to school and we are excited to have Chris Taylor coming as our prospective Youth Minister this week. Christa, our middle child, had 25+ soccer teammates from Lufkin High School come to the house for a sleep over Tuesday night. I was trying to find a movie worth watching until Missy threatened me for thinking about leaving. 25 girls, two dogs, one cat (who hid until late the next morning), two laptops, one desktop and tow TV’s make for much noise. I was sure God was calling me to go minister in a hotel, but my resident Holy Spirit, AKA Missy, said that was just the Chinese food I had for lunch speaking, not God. Today, I spent most of the day working on generators just in case Hurricane Bill takes an unexpected turn. If he doesn’t, they needed to tweaked for the hurricane season anyway. As you know, we house evacuees from the Gulf Coast if necessary and no electricity with 300+ people staying at the church is not a good thing! That’s not a big adjustment, just took a day from an already out of the ordinary week. Finally, Corrinn, our oldest, is leaving for Mississippi College on Friday. What an adjustment!

I am sure there will be tears in our eyes when we leave her in Clinton, MS. Missy has already teared up a few times missing her daughter before she is gone. Corrinn asked me if I was going to cry when we dropped her off. I told her, “Absolutely! I will have tears in my eyes as I say ‘Thank you, God. Thank you!’” Of course I am kidding! I am very thankful to God that she has turned out to be such a Godly young lady. She is ready to go out and change the world. Her mother have been praying for her, as we do all of our children, that they would take the small impact that we have made to the next level and do great things for the Lord. I believe she will do so.

As for the two remaining at home, Christa, along with Lauren Levens who is her lifelong friend, decided to take a more active leadership role on the soccer team. More than being the captian on the field, they decided to take it too the next level. One of the primary purposes of the sleep over was to start the year off on the right track. The two of them worked on a Bible Study for the team! I am so excited and proud of Lis (Lauren’s mom) and I stood in the front yard last night talking about how God is moving in their lives. Praise Him!! Of course they are still teenagers. Later they caught by the police wrapping a friends house. Their punishment was that they had to clean it up.

Davis and I are looking forward to spending a little more time together now that Corrinn will be gone. I am excited about that. We caught a couple of Astro games together, went to Mexico together to minister, and he helped me work on things like the generators.

Looking forward to another great week next week!