Aaah! The weather, the weather, what will the weather do today? We are starting off with a cloudy morning and seventy degrees. It has rained but I don’t know when it did because I was sleeping. The sidewalks and grass are still damp though.

I attended a very nice concert last evening at the Trinity Anglican Church. They had a women’s vocal chorus called Angelus doing a presentation of traditional music of different varieties. They did it all a cappella and it was beautiful. I thought the group was some professional group they had brought in but it turns out that they were from a local high school and were juniors and seniors. I’m thinking it would be wonderful to try to get them for a concert at our church for the Christmas season. I’m guessing we’d have to start now because they do an awful lot of concerts and have traveled over nineteen states performing. I need to bring this up to the Music and Worship committee.

I finally got my okra seeds planted yesterday afternoon in between the rain showers. Now let’s hope it comes up. I only planted five and if it comes up like it has the past couple of years, that will be more than enough for us. A couple of years ago I planted five plants and they grew to almost world record height. They were above the eaves of the house and had to be cut every other day. That was a lot of okra. LOL Ms. Kate puts it in soup and occasionally wwill deep fry some.

Tomorrow is Pentecost Sunday for the Christian Church. Most people will be wearing the color red to symbolize the Holy Spirit. I think it is the more traditional “mainline” churches that celebrate it; I think it is a big deal. BUt some churches really don’t do much with it. It is referred to as the Birthday of the Christian church because it is the day that God sent the Holy Spirit to serves as a counselor and guide for man after the resurrection of Jesus Christ. We’ll have Holy Communion as part of our service.

This country needs more of the Holy Spirit in our everyday lives. Yesterday, once again, some student took a gun to school and gunned down and killed nine students and a teacher and wounded at least nine more. He had planted explosives around the school and the area. This was a kid with no previous criminal record, no known mental health problems, and no outward signs of this style of carnage capability. And yet —- he has shattered hundreds of lives. What makes people do things like this? I don’t know, —- but it sickens me. And —- that was just one of the shootings yesterday I know there was at least one more and it isn’t gettinga lot of attention because that one “only took two lives”. It is time for some kneeling and praying time in this country, and it is time for people to start taking personal responsibility.

I’m done for today. I hope you have a pleasant day and a wonderful weekend. I’m lifting each of you up inmy prayers this morning and I hope you will do the same for me. God Bless.