Just a Closer Walk with Thee....

Hey girls…just a quickie entry cuz I feel like typing and telling stories! Lol

My impetigo is clearing up very very slowly…it’s just not going away as quickly as I’d like it too…I have a huge patch on my arm and I keep it bandaged when I’m in public because first, I’m contagious, and second it’s embarrassing! But anyways…enough about that….I’ll live!
Last night we went to a fish fry which was also a fund raiser for CASA - which is a volunteer program wherein people in the community volunteer their time to come to court and basically follow the progress of a child assigned to them as they progress through court cases such as dependency, neglect, abuse cases, or even highly problematic custody battles. It’s basically someone from the community stepping up to protect the rights and interests of the child - a voice for the sometimes voiceless….anyway…so the fish fry was a fund raiser and they were also raffling off various goodies….I bought six raffle tickets for five dollars and won a hand crocheted afghan! Yay! So it was a fun night of socializing and I won something on top of it! Cool!

This morning church was really great! Tim Lovelace was our special guest. I suspect that some of you may know who he is, because Pastor Garry mentioned that he toured with the Gaithers? Anyway, he is a singer, songwriter, musician, comedian….very talented man…at the very end of the service, he and Pastor Garry hopped on the piano together and totally improvised a piano duet of Just a Closer Walk with Thee….amazing!

Anyways…I just felt the need to journal a bit…not really much going on here…Sunday school was really good this morning too….we had a lesson about David and Goliath. The story is in I Samuel…I recommend a second read of the story. Because if ya’ll are like me, and have heard that story all your life, to really read it and have an adult discussion about it, really is awakening. The pure faith that David had in God is just inspiring to me. He didn’t blink or second guess that God would take care of the situation as long as he was obedient. I must say, I envy that kind of faith. We should all strive to be in such a place that when any problem faces us, without hesitation we know what the right path is and just have the courage to go down the path without question…like I said, it was an eye opening lesson. My faith is so pansy in comparison!

I don’t think I’ve ever shared that my husband’s grandmother died (not recently, it’s been a few years ago now) of Alzheimer’s. At this point in my life, I’ve been blessed to not have had anyone close to me die of this mind robbing disease. But she was sick before I even met husband and by the time we started dating, she was so far gone that I never got to meet her. It was just too painful for husband and most of his family to even go visit her because she had been such a wonderful vibrant person in life (everyone called her Honey) and the disease had made her so mean and decrepit and she was just so sick. Husband has always had a really hard time with the memories and just the way she deteriorated. This was a woman that he had lived with for all of his childhood years so they were very close. I really feel like that he probably never really got closure with her death. But anyway, I say all that to tell you all this. There is a man that sings with our preacher’s family named David and we met him a while back and then we went on their tour bus with them to a singing engagement at a church and his parents came. Well on the ride there and also while the group was setting up and getting ready for their show we talked with his parents and got to know them a little bit. On the ride home, we sat with them and the father fell asleep. We continued talking with the mother and through the course of the conversation, she revealed that her husband was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. Ever since then, Jimmie has felt a sort of connection to the family and any time we’ve seen them he has always asked how the father was doing. Well, the father passed away this past week. And the David was in church this morning and Jimmie just lost it. He hugged the guy and they cried together. Of course, seeing my husband so emotional, I also teared up. This is why I feel like that he is probably still dealing with residual pain from the loss of his grandmother to the disease. Please pray for the family who just lost their father. In the grand scheme of things, it’s better he passed quickly rather than suffer the effects of Alzheimer’s a long time, but obviously, the family is grieving. And please say a prayer for Jimmie too…thank you!

Well…now that I’ve thoroughly depressed my readers…have a great week! Lol

I’ll leave you with this….God is good…all the time….all the time….God is good….even when we don’t understand…God is good. I’m so glad that He is ultimately in control and knows what’s up. I pray for you all and for myself the faith of David to plow through life boldly, full of courage, and full of faith that God is in control.

*this feels like a good place to insert and Amen!*