It was fun while it lasted
October 6, 2008 (Monday)
I enjoyed my weekend with my grandchildren. They are all in school today. When the other grandparents arrive, I’ll be going back to the Heights. Mark and Dianna, the kids’ parents, are on a business trip to San Diego, California.
One of my grandsons, Alex, 18, went to church yesterday here in the Woodlands. He is active in his church. The other three, Austin, Sean and Chloe, younger than he, went with me to the Timbergrove Baptist Church in Houston, and afterwards we enjoyed lunch at a local restaurant with Linda Ward, church organist, and Wanda Stewart, our lifelong friend who sang in church yesterday in the absence of Troy and Ruth Conner, who are viewing the fall foliage in New Enland this week.
Mark’s parents will be coming today to stay the rest of the week with the kids. Mark’s dad, Buddy Hinze, is retired and is also pastoring a church in Arkansas near their retirement home in the Ozarks. He and Sue pastored churches in Texas, Colorado and Wyoming before becoming missionaries in that part of the world hit by the terrible Tsunami after their retirement. The kids are looking forward to their being here with them.
Power has been restored to most places in the hurricane area, and I think most traffic signals are working again. The hardest hit places will be rebuilding for quite a while, and the search for missing people continues, but most folks in Houston seem to have telephone service now, grocery stores are well stocked and lines for gasoline have mostly disappeared. Little by little, people are beginning to feel like things are more nearly normal.
Storms pass. And the storms of life also pass. I guess we need to remember that, if we are going through tough experiences today. Not only will the storms pass, but the Lord will be with us every moment as it rages.