WOW

I anticipated writing several times over the summer, telling about my trips, etc.  As you can see, it hasn’t worked out that way.

Dianne and I went to NY to visit Mary and family.  I did NOT get to France so I have a credit with Delta.  Chuck, Susan, Melissa, and I went to Williamsburg, VA for a few days.  The girls left on Wednesday; we stayed until Friday; stopped overnight in NC; then came on home on Saturday.

A dear friend’s granddaughter has been in PICU in Greenville for three weeks.  The great news is that she is now awake and eating and smiling   We’ve stopped by a few times when we were in town.

This weekend has been AWESOME.

Yesterday, Chuck and I had breakfast at Waffle House (imagine that).  We had a little free time, then met family at the Laurens Farmer’s Market.  The previous weeks a few more vendors were there, but it’s still fun to visit and see what’s available.  Hopefully the lady with the wooden lighthouses will be back soon.

Then we stopped by the library and the bookstore.  Went to Greenville to Books-A-Million (a book, coffee) and Lenscrafters to have my contacts checked.  I was doing great.  I’ve had them for a week.  Only …. there wasn’t one in my right eye.  I KNOW it was there earlier in the day.  Not sure where/when it popped out.  They didn’t have another like it.  The lady was very nice and looked until she found something close.  It seems to be working fine.  Went to One-Way to see if they had my contacts in stock … nope.  Into Garner’s for a few gluten-free products.  (the pretzels are yummy) Then to lunch at our favorite restaurant, India Palace.  Deanne met us there   Then on to the hospital to visit our little friend.  Stopped at WallyWorld but no they don’t have torics in stock either.  Chuck went into Lowe’s for something. We’d been home a little while and I left again … on DEZ this time … rode out Horseshoe Falls Road.  It’s a little bitty waterfall, but it’s a neat ride.  That’s why I bought a bike!  Then I worked on some church and school stuff.

This morning we were up early, had breakfast, and Chuck went to Columbia to help Susan pack up her things and get them moved to Laurens.  Several other folks were helping, too.  I got up with some sinus congestion that turned into an earache that had me dizzy for a short time.  Got aggrevated at stuff in general and thought, “There is some reason I need to be at church today, there always is when it’s this hard to get there.”  During church I butchered the offertory music.  Just after the sermon started, Linda started walking out.  I knew she’d pulled her back earlier in the week and it was knotted and painful.  She looked awful, twisted, barely moving, eyes weird.  She whispered that she was going out to the car to get some  pain medicine.  I asked if she wanted me to go and she nodded.  She let me open the door for her.  She asked me to open the trunk.  She took some medicine and I said, “It takes that 45 minutes to an hour to work.  Church’ll be over by then. Let’s pray.”  So we prayed.  It was so awesome! I mentioned my lack of faith that she could be relieved of the pain right then and she prayed the “grain of a mustard seed” verse.  I know that pain increases the liklihood of her having a migraine and light exacerbates that pain.  The sun was very bright, so I mentioned going on in.  She stood still, saying, “actually, the sun feels like a hug from my Daddy-God.” So we prayed a few more sentences and a cool breeze blew, making it very comfortable to stand there in the warm sunlight.  I felt her relaxing.  The pain went away.  Gone.  She was able to stand up straight and breathe comfortably instead of hunching over and straining to breathe.  I’ve never seen anything like it.  We talked a minute about the change she felt, and I said (rather loudly) “Oh yeah!” We went back in; Linda visibly felt better.  At the end of the service we shared what had happened.  As I said already, I’ve never seen anything quite like that, much less been directly involved.  Awesome, humbling, …. kinda strange …. But something I HAD to share.

This afternoon Melissa’s helped me catch up with some school work.  I even had time to write this!

Ya’ll have a GREAT week.