Memorial Day Weekend
Friday night was terrible. I talked on Skype with a friend, but around midnight, we both decided it was time to call it a night. Unfortunately, I couldn’t sleep! I couldn’t find anything on TV to watch, either. I got up around 7:00 A.M., and took care of the dog. Then, I stayed up a little while, listened to Adventures in Odyssey on the radio, and then crashed around 10:00 A.M.
That certainly wasn’t the way I wanted to spend Saturday, but I did do laundry, so that was a step in the right direction, I suppose. I got back up around 3:00 P.M. Jen and I talked off and on during the day. It really sounds like she is settling in nicely at her job. I’m very happy for her!
Sunday was a lot of fun! Randy was back, so I wasn’t the only sax player in Orchestra. That was such a relief! It was kind of funny, though, because we did a special for Memorial Day called Mansions of the Lord, and it has 2 sax solos in it. Randy joked that this was a real welcome back present. I told him if he’d been there, we could have worked it a little, and I would have played one of them. I’m glad we can joke around like we do.
We also played The Star Spangled Banner, but it’s a very strange arrangement. It was in the key of F, just like what we played in marching band, but it was no where the arrangement we played. It was very foreign to me, and if I had only heard the Sax part, I would have wondered what song it was.
Sunday night was fun, too. We played a lot of praise choruses, and we actually played through those during Orchestra practice, not just during Worship. I liked that a lot better.
Bro. Ray’s sermon Sunday night was on encouragement. He is starting a series on that. It was really good, and I’m going to try to put more of it in practice. He talked about how spiritual gifts tend to influence your natural desire to encourage. I don’t know that I had ever heard anybody put that in to practice before, but I imagine I really have. It makes sense the way he described it, though. He said people who have the Spiritual gift of Mercy are naturally better at encouraging because they are more sensitive to people’s emotional needs. I also like the fact he said that just because that was the case, it didn’t give the rest of us an excuse not to be encouraging. Some people are naturally just better at it, and the rest of us have to work at it a little harder.
Take a listen to the sermon, though. click here and then follow to May 28 to hear the sermon.
After church, our Singles Social Club went to O’Charlies. It was fun, because Tom joined us. We all had a good time eating and talking, but we talked some about the sermon. Abbey made a comment about how much I was her encouragement. Of course, she said it was because I did so much. I really feel uncomfortable when people make it out like I do so much that’s out of the ordinary. I guess if I was an astronaut or a doctor, I might feel differently. Luckily, Theresa saved the situation for me by joking about skydiving. We got to laughing about that, and then somebody noticed that there was a race on TV. It took a while to get our food, and we were beginning to think they weren’t going to bring us any rolls.
Theresa started a thing, though when we finally got rolls. They were fresh, just out of the oven. I passed on butter at first, because I’m so self conscious about buttering things in public in front of people. Then Theresa took her roll and started dipping it in the butter. We all liked that so much we were all doing it before the night was over. It was very good.
Yesterday, Angela and I got together to go to Wal-Mart. That was fun. I bought some blank CD’s, and the usual household items. I really wanted double sided disks to store my mp3 files on, but they didn’t have any. I’ll make the best of this, though. I looked for a hammock stand, but they didn’t have one there, so I suppose that I’ll end up ordering on from the web site Elizabeth and I found.
Angela came back here, and we shared lunch. She and I were hanging out watching TV when I got a really bad headache. We were watching TV Land.
I took a long nap, then got up and did some housework before Theresa and Abbey came over to make contacts for Sunday School. We spent about 2 hours calling people and writing post cards. I hope that we can reap rewards from that, but we did find out a lot of people had moved or gotten married. We’re thinking getting married would remove you from the singles class.
Abbey stayed long enough after we did our contacts to share a chocolate-peanut butter milkshake. I don’t think we put enough ice cream in the mixture, but I guess that will just give us an excuse to try again.
I woke up this morning around 5:00. It was 8:00 before the first call came in to work, though. I hope things pick up this morning. I also hope it rains soon! I suppose I should stop writing, though, and be a little productive. Have a great day!
That certainly wasn’t the way I wanted to spend Saturday, but I did do laundry, so that was a step in the right direction, I suppose. I got back up around 3:00 P.M. Jen and I talked off and on during the day. It really sounds like she is settling in nicely at her job. I’m very happy for her!
Sunday was a lot of fun! Randy was back, so I wasn’t the only sax player in Orchestra. That was such a relief! It was kind of funny, though, because we did a special for Memorial Day called Mansions of the Lord, and it has 2 sax solos in it. Randy joked that this was a real welcome back present. I told him if he’d been there, we could have worked it a little, and I would have played one of them. I’m glad we can joke around like we do.
We also played The Star Spangled Banner, but it’s a very strange arrangement. It was in the key of F, just like what we played in marching band, but it was no where the arrangement we played. It was very foreign to me, and if I had only heard the Sax part, I would have wondered what song it was.
Sunday night was fun, too. We played a lot of praise choruses, and we actually played through those during Orchestra practice, not just during Worship. I liked that a lot better.
Bro. Ray’s sermon Sunday night was on encouragement. He is starting a series on that. It was really good, and I’m going to try to put more of it in practice. He talked about how spiritual gifts tend to influence your natural desire to encourage. I don’t know that I had ever heard anybody put that in to practice before, but I imagine I really have. It makes sense the way he described it, though. He said people who have the Spiritual gift of Mercy are naturally better at encouraging because they are more sensitive to people’s emotional needs. I also like the fact he said that just because that was the case, it didn’t give the rest of us an excuse not to be encouraging. Some people are naturally just better at it, and the rest of us have to work at it a little harder.
Take a listen to the sermon, though. click here and then follow to May 28 to hear the sermon.
After church, our Singles Social Club went to O’Charlies. It was fun, because Tom joined us. We all had a good time eating and talking, but we talked some about the sermon. Abbey made a comment about how much I was her encouragement. Of course, she said it was because I did so much. I really feel uncomfortable when people make it out like I do so much that’s out of the ordinary. I guess if I was an astronaut or a doctor, I might feel differently. Luckily, Theresa saved the situation for me by joking about skydiving. We got to laughing about that, and then somebody noticed that there was a race on TV. It took a while to get our food, and we were beginning to think they weren’t going to bring us any rolls.
Theresa started a thing, though when we finally got rolls. They were fresh, just out of the oven. I passed on butter at first, because I’m so self conscious about buttering things in public in front of people. Then Theresa took her roll and started dipping it in the butter. We all liked that so much we were all doing it before the night was over. It was very good.
Yesterday, Angela and I got together to go to Wal-Mart. That was fun. I bought some blank CD’s, and the usual household items. I really wanted double sided disks to store my mp3 files on, but they didn’t have any. I’ll make the best of this, though. I looked for a hammock stand, but they didn’t have one there, so I suppose that I’ll end up ordering on from the web site Elizabeth and I found.
Angela came back here, and we shared lunch. She and I were hanging out watching TV when I got a really bad headache. We were watching TV Land.
I took a long nap, then got up and did some housework before Theresa and Abbey came over to make contacts for Sunday School. We spent about 2 hours calling people and writing post cards. I hope that we can reap rewards from that, but we did find out a lot of people had moved or gotten married. We’re thinking getting married would remove you from the singles class.
Abbey stayed long enough after we did our contacts to share a chocolate-peanut butter milkshake. I don’t think we put enough ice cream in the mixture, but I guess that will just give us an excuse to try again.
I woke up this morning around 5:00. It was 8:00 before the first call came in to work, though. I hope things pick up this morning. I also hope it rains soon! I suppose I should stop writing, though, and be a little productive. Have a great day!