Happy Sunday!
With Luke out of the state for a wedding this weekend, driving duty fell on me. I
convinced Carrie to let us borrow her car for the day. She graciously agreed
and rode her bike to get to church instead of driving. Bless her heart. Ally
and I picked up Sabrina a few minutes after 7:00 and then we headed south to
Blackwoods.
Both services were relatively small: 7 attendees at
Blackwoods and 2 at Seawall. As usual, we worshiped with some great folks at
Seawall. Our congregation consisted of a Methodist pastor from Tenessee and his
8-year-old daughter who kept Sabrina and I busy by making us play pine-cone
baseball with her. I guess the final score was 3,000 to 8. I lost.
After the Seawall service, the five of us headed over to The
Common Good for some oatmeal and popovers. While there, the minister realized
he forgot something in his car. When he returned he produced a Ziploc bag full
of wooden cross necklaces. He proceeded to hand them out to Ally, Sabrina, and
me. Soon, word got out and people from all over the dining room were coming
over and asking for a cross. His church has handed out over 100,000 crosses
already. Today they handed out another 20. It was pretty cool to see how
receptive people are to the symbol.
We decided to have a low-key afternoon. At the Redbox in
Hannaford’s, we picked the movie 12 Years
a Slave to watch. As it turns out, I’m the only one who made it through
without closing my eyes and snoozing. The movie was fantastic. Incredibly moving. By far, it
was a much better use of time than watching The
Conjuring last night.
Light attendance at the Cadillac service as well. One of our
attendees was an ACMNP alumnus from a stint at Yellowstone years ago. He said
we were doing alright keeping up the tradition.
Today's picture of the day is the sunset. On the drive up we were skeptical we'd even see the sun, and the weather would be a repeat of last week's windy gale. All things worked together for our good as you can see in this picture.
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