"That doesn't sound like a real thing anyway. Are you sure you didn't dream about that?"
No, this really was "take a basketball to church" day! Well, it was for me. Remember that tag I'd pulled from the Angell Tree?
"I do. That tag for a sport toy."
Well, this was the last Sunday before the youth group delivers the gifts. Last night I felt like it was Sunday and I'd missed my chance to take the ball to Asbury Memorial. I went to bed trying to figure out how, and when, to get it to P.A.C.K. in time on Monday. Then, when I woke up this morning, I felt like Ebenezer Scrooge!
"What the fresh hell does that mean?"
Hahaha! As I told Candace Jenkins, I felt like Scrooge when I awoke and realized this was Sunday! I hadn't missed it after all! What a great start to the day!!!
"Hahaha! That's a funny story!"
That's what she said. I'd repeated the story to the police officer in the parking lot as I returned to my car and he thought it was funny, too.
"Very nice!"
And as I was leaving the church, Jan of VBS was waiting inside the door with an older woman. The car to fetch them home was on its way. So I stopped to chat and told them a story from yesterday. A guy selling a house security system came by and was pretty insistent. So I asked him to look at my car. "It's 23 years old," I told him. "Does it seem likely that I'd need a security system when my car is that old?" Amazed, he said, "23? That's older than I am!" The two ladies got a hoot out of that.
"Hahahaha!"
It all made me feel like an encourager, spreading verbal sunshine on this cold day. That had been the focus of Billy's sermon and I very much liked it. He spoke of Elizabeth, Mary's older cousin, as the one who Mary searched out when she found herself single, virgin, and pregnant, in danger of being stoned by the townspeople for what was regarded as a crime. The cousin gave Mary a new perspective on her condition. Sometimes, that's exactly what we need: a fresh take on what we consider an insurmountable problem. Very nice!
"Yes, it is. I just may listen to it again."
Me, too, though I must say it was extra nice to hear in person today. Now, there's a variety show on network TV and it looks to be similar to the 1940's show last Sunday. It's called "Byron Allen Presents: The Comedy & Music Superfest". Such a splendid name!
"It is! You'll have to regale me with highlights!"
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John Legend performing "Bridge Over Troubled Water"! Gladys Knight singing "Midnight Train To Georgia"! Jon Lovitz riffing on folks splurging crazy money to "see the stars more clearly"... and actually doing the math to show how silly it is to go up 55 miles when the closest star is still more than a trillion (1,000,000,000,000) miles away! Gabriel Iglesias promoting "unexercised" and "fluffy" over "fat"! Yes, defintely a variety show worth seeing again!
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