Good morning. Yes, I’m back. It’s been a busy couple of days and today will be no different. I’m up early today because I had to get out and water the garden and a couple of plants that were looking very sad and dry. We haven’t had rain in a week and things have really dried out. And —- it appears we don’t have any rain in the forecast either. There was a weak weather front that went through and some folks did get some scattered showers, but none here. Now the forecast is calling for temperatures up to 90 degrees. So, an early morning rising to water is on the menu. 

Actually I’m not up much earlier tan normal anyway because Ms. Kate still has her 0900 radiation treatments for another couple of weeks. She has 15 treatments done and ten more to go. Bless her little heart, She and I will both be glad when this protocol is done. It continues to increasingly bother her. Although she hasn’t developed the “sunburn effect” yet that the doctor said might happen. But the breast itches and it sporadically gives her pain. I pray it doesn’t get any worse and yet we are both thankful that it isn’t any worse than it is. God is good and God has this. We have several friends that have cancer or have recently had treatments for cancer and their cancer was far worse than Kathy’s. Thank God that we caught hers extremely early and her surgery while certainly not fun; —- could have been so very much worse. She will be the first to tell you that no woman likes to get their mammogram done; —— hers saved her life. So ladies, —- get your mammograms!!!!!

I sat down last evening to work on my sermon for the 11th of June. The lectionary gave me scriptures that talk about the call of Abram by God. I had no idea what I was doing to write about but got to reading Genesis 12:1-9 and it suddenly clicked and now I think I’ve come up with a plan for a four part sermon series. Who’d a thunk it? But, sometimes it happens like that. I just pray I don’t lose the momentum because it has the prospects of being a good series. And while I was reading and researching that — I found some information to go with the Bible study on Job. I love it when God drops seeds to plant. 

I went to the Good Samaritan Home yesterday and conducted a worship service for them. I do that a few times a year. The chaplain there relies on volunteers from the local churches, especially the UCC churches since the home is a UCC facility. But, —- that is changing as of the 31st of June. It has been bought and will be managed by a private health care organization. I don’t know what lies in store for them from a religious services perspective. 

Time to get my lady put the door and on the way to hr appointment. Have a blessed day. Peace.