Happy New Week! Welcome to Monday and the second week of June. Do you realize that very shortly this year will be half over? It doesn’t seem like we have had a 2020 yet because we have been cooped up in the house for the past eleven weeks. That pretty much shot Spring in the rear end. In two weeks it will be officially summer and it is going to be a different kind of summer because of restrictions due to the stupid COVID-19 thing. None of the swimming pools are going to be open. The local county fairs have been cancelled, the 4th of July fireworks have been cancelled. The state fair has been cancelled. Theaters are only operating at half capacity if they re-open at all. Restaurants are operating at half to a third of capacity if they can re-open at all. People are still being told to stay indoors and cover their faces and don’t touch one another. It appears the only acceptable social activity these days is civil unrest and protest. Then you are encouraged to crowd as many people into the streets as you can. We’re told that we aren’t supposed to sing in church even wearing masks and standing six feet away from each other; —- but it is just fine to stand shoulder to shoulder in the streets and yell at the top of your lungs. The world has gone mad.

We had our outdoor service yesterday and it went well. I guess we had maybe 50 show up. . We also tried to livestream it but for whatever reason, we got the first 13 minutes of it and the IPad quit and and we got nothing more. So, no one sitting at home had to listen to my sermon because that is the point at which it quit. I thought it was a good one too but maybe God thought differently. I considered  taping it here at home and putting it on our Facebook page but decided that would be prideful. As the fells on tv says; “On to the next”. Next week we return to the post COVID schedule and I go back to preaching two services.

We made our vacation plans for fall. I’ve rented a beach house in Emerald Isle on the North Carolina coast for a week in September. Will have a chance to see Lisa and all of her family.

Time to quit and go do some writing. Have a blessed week.