Hello Tuesday already. It’s a warm sunny morning after a night of a few gentle thunderstorms. I have to give thanks for the rain we received last night. I was going to have to go water my newly planted tomatoes today and probably my patio garden flower garden too. But, God took care of my light work for me and now I can just sit here and enjoy.

I had a busy day yesterday. Office hours stretched out into a shopping trip for some technology shopping and a lunch date with Ms. Kate. Then last evening I had a church council meeting to attend. Those generally go about an hour and a half, — not because we have that much work to do but because we have so much good fellowship doing it. We have a good council and they get along very well. That isn’t always the case at churches. Far too often councils are made up of people that want everything to be done their personal way and the councils end up spending more time fighting than not. I’m very glad to say that I have never had to experience that as a pastor but I know other pastors who have and they are miserable and it often leads to pastors either resigning or being fired. Why fire the pastor you might ask?? Because he’s the “outsider” and not one of the relatives that are sitting on the church board so the problem must be his or her fault. Small groups are some funny animals. But I have been very blessed to not have any of those kind of problems. It must be my winning personality. LOL.

Sunday was Mother’s Day and Ms. Kate and I had a very relaxed day of it. Our daughter Lisa had ordered a “edible arrangement” for Ms. Kate and it was supposed to be delivered on Saturday. But we were gone when they came by which meant that we had to go pick it up on Sunday after church. All of the restaurants were already full by the time we got out of church so — we went to Cold Stone Creamery and had ice-cream for lunch since it was in the area where we had to go pick up her gift. Then, for supper, I asked Ms. Kate where I could take her for dinner and all she wanted was hotdogs from the grill. How easy is that?? The truth is that we are at a point in our lives where ion we want something we go get it and our needs are few. Ya’ just don’t need as much stuff when you get older. So, our gift to each other is usually something that we can do together, even if it is just fixing hotdogs on the grill and sitting around enjoying each other’s company. I give God praise that we are both still alive and can do these things together.

I need to go shopping for bird feed stuff today. I’m either out or low on most of my products and I must keep my buffet guests happy. They are just like party guests — if you feed them — they will come. So, having said that — time to get cleaned up and start my day. I hope your day is pleasant and filled with good things. Peace.