Where have you seen God at work this past week?
Martha – I mentioned after church service last Sunday that our dryer vent was old fashioned, and in order to hook up our new dryer we needed a new doohickey. So, Rich gave me his phone number and Ken called him after church. He came over in the afternoon and put the part in. He was such a blessing; Ken and I will always thank him for doing that for us. That was definitely a God Moment and he was our special angel last week.
Dave – For me it’s just the amount of communication and compassion that everyone is sharing towards each other – whether that’s in a work environment or a family environment. We’re seeing a lot of it in Sally’s family on the East Coast sending their love; asking and wondering and worrying and praying. Even her brother today, on the East Coast, said “Jump in your car and drive East, we’ll take care of you; we have no smoke here!”
Francie – We decided to pod" with another family. Essentially, this means that we all agree to the same rules of seeing people. That means we have had play dates for Sage with people her age. And her joy about going into somebody else’s house is kind of epic and disturbing. Three other kids and quiet and it was amazing! So, we’ve been having a fun week here. And Sage has been reading to Sloane almost every day; her ability to memorize books since she’s 3 and can’t read is actually epic….
Kat – We also have Podded with another family in the neighborhood that has 2 girls. One is a little older than Aurelia and the other is a little younger and that has been amazing because, Aurelia this past week, before the smoke, has been outside finally playing with kids for the first time since this all happened. She has 3 friends now that she can play with in this little pod. So, that has been amazing and helpful; Aurelia has been ecstatic about having the opportunity to play with other kids again. That’s been nice for us as well; a true blessing.
Sally – On the theme of students and teachers – I received a box that my brother sent me, after my other brother passed away, of some memorabilia. In it is this yearbook or scrapbook from my dad when he was in 7th grade and I want to read you an example of what teachers back then wrote to their students in their scrapbook: “My Dear Lawrence, It’s been surely a pleasure to have such a brilliant student as you, my dear, in my class; such a beautiful gentleman and a good sport as well. I’m sure you will succeed in all your attempts. Good Luck & Best Wishes for everything good in the future.” …In cursive that everyone can read because they learned cursive. And every teacher wrote these beautiful things…not like Hey, good to have you, Bye…. I’m hearing from a lot of people that have young children that teachers are really stepping it up now in their online delivery of lessons that could be very boring online, but they make it exciting so we got to say hats off to them.
Pastor Brett – We came back from Pendleton this week on Tuesday and we found that there were at least one mouse that had run rampant through our house and had left droppings everywhere. So, my God Sighting this week was actually I’m very thankful that mice leave droppings. Because, that way you can tell where they’ve been. Instead of having to clean every single square inch of the house, which we’re almost doing anyway, we can focus on the areas where they were.