Saturday, April 28, 2007

Weekly note - April 28

I suppose this week just ending is about as routine a week as I've seen in some time. That's not to say everything was completely routine and ordinary.

One of our church members, who last attended before even our visit last June, passed away on Monday. She did not have any family members that go to our church, nor any immediate family in the area. She has quite a few in-laws, so it's really up to them how they want to proceed. I gave them my card, and if they want me to have a service or something, I'm prepared to do that. If not, that's fine.

Elise received her first real paycheck this week. Now we have a better idea of how things might move forward.

For the last few weeks we've had a couple of additional girls attend both our Sabbath services and the choir rehearsal. They need to be picked up for all these things and that is somewhat of an extra burden. We had them over for lunch, some games, and a bit of cookie baking this afternoon. It is extra work as they do require more hand-holding (so to speak) than would be those of more mature ages. But we need to remind ourselves that trees and forests don't grow instantly. Seeds have to be planted, the seedlings and shoots have to be nurtured and gently guided towards maturity. So I guess we are planting a few seeds right now. We hope that our efforts at seed planting will lead to germination, but that is not in our hands. We'll do what we can to water and nurture, to pull up the weeds and allow the sunlight to reach the ground. But we have to keep in mind that germination and growth is God's work.

As far as weather, it's back to rain this week. It looks like the latter part of next week might dry up again.

Oh, and one last thing: My desktop PC is finally back to its pre-crash state. I've been working with a Microsoft tech over the last couple weeks trying to get the Media Center Rollup 2 to install. It finally succeeded this evening.

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