Vision 20/20
All right, so I finally hauled my lazy self over to the church office to meet with our minister of children about our children's retreat this weekend. We'll be taking a group of 25 kids down to White Oak Conference Center, so it'll be familiar ground to me. :) According to Annie Ruth Yelton, we will leave Friday afternoon, and we should arrive just in time for dinner at 6:00. Then we'll start the round of special activities we've planned for the kids. I'll be helping lead the music again with Anna Kate, Mrs. Yelton's summer intern, and someone else I don't know. Other activities will include drama, Bible Study, Puppets, Mime, Q&A Time, and Recreation. We'll also have a bonfire Friday night, weather permitting, and toast marshmellows and sing some fun campire songs with the kids. The emphasis will be on three concepts: God is the Creator of all life, Jesus is God and the Son of God, and the Holy Spirit is God. Our aim is to help give these kids a solid Christian foundation to take with them as they get ready to enter the higher grade levels in school. So that'll be a fun two days. And to think I almost got left out.
On my way home from work tonight, I found myself stuck in a traffic crawl on I-385. Turned out they were busy doing more construction work under the strobelights. So that gave me time to call up an old friend from the now-defunct CFA of Greenville Mall: Candace Dillard. I haven't seen her since I started going to Furman, and it felt good to talk to her again. She was, I think, one of the real unsung heroines of our roster back when we had a lot of shake-ups going on, and were just starting to head into the pits of business. She's also experienced a long list of medical ailments; I remember her coming into work still recovering from spinal taps and having fluid drained. Right now, she's on medical leave from work (she's at a CFA in Anderson now) and summer classes, so I know she's trying to get herself rested up for fall. But she's never let those things get her down; she's a real inspiration to me personally, and I regret that we haven't gotten to spend as much time together as I would have liked. But anyway, thank you, God, for putting me in that traffic jam. I might not have gotten to catch up with her otherwise. Always find the silver lining in things.
Song of the Day: Avalon - "Always Have, Always Will"
Verse of the Day: "I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it." - Ecclesiastes 3:14
On my way home from work tonight, I found myself stuck in a traffic crawl on I-385. Turned out they were busy doing more construction work under the strobelights. So that gave me time to call up an old friend from the now-defunct CFA of Greenville Mall: Candace Dillard. I haven't seen her since I started going to Furman, and it felt good to talk to her again. She was, I think, one of the real unsung heroines of our roster back when we had a lot of shake-ups going on, and were just starting to head into the pits of business. She's also experienced a long list of medical ailments; I remember her coming into work still recovering from spinal taps and having fluid drained. Right now, she's on medical leave from work (she's at a CFA in Anderson now) and summer classes, so I know she's trying to get herself rested up for fall. But she's never let those things get her down; she's a real inspiration to me personally, and I regret that we haven't gotten to spend as much time together as I would have liked. But anyway, thank you, God, for putting me in that traffic jam. I might not have gotten to catch up with her otherwise. Always find the silver lining in things.
Song of the Day: Avalon - "Always Have, Always Will"
Verse of the Day: "I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it." - Ecclesiastes 3:14
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