Sunday...
Church as usual.
Fred B. preached a sermon about Job - a character I find fascinating.
We had an appeal for people going thru Job-like times (personal disasters, crises, illness etc.) to go forward after the service.
As a muso, I get a bit stuck sometimes with this sort of thing, as I am usually playing when people "go forward".
Didn't worry about this today. Got down there in the front row (usually sit there anyway) and waited...and waited....
As sometimes happens, the appeal is announced, and then people stream out to get their coffees and socialise!
So SOMETIMES the person needing/wanting prayer misses out - a systemic failure?
Anyway, not today...today Maria Lethbridge (who is actually Dutch in origin) came up, put her arm around me, unofficially adopted me as her son, spoke warm and gentle words that brought tears rolling down, and prayed.
I was (and am) in good hands (Good Hands/God's Hands).
A big morning in church then...
Lovely lunch at home, shared with our friend Ian M. who brought the caving photos over - hopefully Lois will post them - they are NOT blackouts. Ian has a camera that takes great shots in the dark.
Boys downstairs to watch Will Smith save the world yet again, this time from aliens in Independence Day (if he earned a dollar for every time he saved the world...he'd be a lot poorer than what he is now!).
Richard S. came over from Devonport, accompanied by Peter his son (same age as Alexander), and bearing gifts - champagne (for tomorrow) and cake!
We FINALLY met and said hi to our new neighbours, Arvin and Irene - they are doing a spectacular job on their house (26B) and garden.
Still no written letters from Ak Hospital...
Next Sunday arvo Lois is off to Chch for 3 days, so the message is ......MONOPOLY!!! 3PM!!!!
Bring...a board if you have one, a drink and some nibbles and plenty of good humour!!!!!
(Have you ever tried playing the Waitangi Tribunal version of Monopoly???)
We may run scrabble as well....we will be playing strictly by whatever rules we decide on on the day!
(Just to explain...Lois, like many good and sane people in this land, HATES Monopoly, so her absence is the best time to play it with a bunch of other Monopolists!).
Please pray, send thoughts, energy, love, etc. to me tomorrow (admission 8am.........)
Love to you all,
G.
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Maybe it was at the hospital that I last saw Richard.
ReplyDeleteEver played Poleconomy?
Yes. Could well have been! The name poleconomy rings a bell - what happens? G.
ReplyDeletePeople make ridiculous amounts of money by owning NZ companies (as of the early 1980s) and having other players land on those companies, etc.
ReplyDelete...any NZ companies left to own?
ReplyDeleteIf you're coming on Sun, bring it!
G.
Hi everyone! My dad has been bugging me to post a comment about posting comments (confusing?) so here goes:
ReplyDelete1. Write your comment on the box
2. Select your profile
3. If you have one of those given accounts, click and then select post comment.
4. If you haven't one of those accounts, set one up or... well, you might want to ask someone a little brighter than me...!
I'm sure the company names will bring back many memories for people who were around in that era. And I'm sure that A would like to have a rematch in Monopoly after I owned* him at Frisbee golf last week.
ReplyDelete* His word, not mine; it was actually quite close.
It was a little scary when I found that my Google account would work for this blog site. It was a little more than a little scary when I realised that it leaves me logged in at Google as well, so the next time I use Google for a search they know exactly who's searching for "ratiocination via post-meridien perambulation". Um. Or whatever I might be searching for.
...and why would you (or anyone in their right mind) search for "ratiocination via post-meridien perambulation"? I think I'll stick with the "diddle-di-di" from "Explain Tommy To Me"! G.
ReplyDeleteUm... I wanted to check I had spelled it correctly for a little project I have on the go.
ReplyDeleteAh - apparently it's "post meridiem" with an m on the end.
ReplyDelete...and what kind of project might that be?
ReplyDeleteG.