Hard to believe we're already two weeks into the new year.

Update since last post: Annie Lee Coates passed away on Thursday the 29th of December. We were in Kentucky on vacation, but in touch with the family. We had already planned on coming back to Virginia Beach on Friday to spend New Year's with Leslie and her family. Three other area Pastors were asked to lead the funeral, so I drove up for the visitation on Saturday evening, and then back down to Va Beach to ring in the new year with the family.

We went to Thalia Lynn on Sunday morning. It was good to see all the folks who helped form us and give us ministry experience (even though sometimes they didn't know it) :-). The message was good. I needed to hear it. About asking God, not being AFRAID to ask God for things. Need to remember that God is not only GOD, but Daddy as well.

While I was here on New Year's eve, I stopped to visit another member who'd been getting progressively worse over the last couple of months. I'm glad I did. I got the call Sunday morning from one of her sons letting me know that she'd passed away as well.

We got back late Sunday night, and Monday and Tuesday were spent working out the details and preparing for and carrying out her funeral. Wednesday we did a quick study in Philemon, and Thursday we had a Sunday School Council meeting as well as a Youth Committee meeting.

I'm sitting here putting down calendar events and not what I had hoped this would have been originally -reflections on events that happen. Celebrated communion this past Sunday, and took it to one of our shut-ins yesterday. There are a couple of others to whom I'll be taking it next week.

Oh! Caleb!

Caleb had a headache that started last friday, and it kept coming back and kept coming back... Monday Leslie took him to the Doctor, and she gave him a shot for the pain, and recommended that if the headache persisted we should take him to the hospital. It did, and we did, on Tuesday evening. He got a CT of his head, and discovered that his synuses (sp?) are small, and deep in his head, and filled with fluid ... apparently enough so as to cause the headaches. The Doctor said there was nothing that could be done for THAT directly, but to treat the symptoms. So we sent some children's motrin with him to school the next day, along with a permission slip so the nurse could give him some if he needed it. She DID give him some on both Wednesday and Thursday, and it DID stop the pain. I'm not looking forward to the bill from that CT. We HAVE insurance, but it's not very good... and we've just sent in the application to change it to what will hopefully prove to be a better provider.

more later.

grace & peace