Food is best shared with others. So today we headed over to a seniors complex and ate with some friends. More friends were there with whom we conversed. The hour passed so quickly we felt as though we had just arrived.
My recommendation? Find a place to eat with someone else this week. At your home, a restaurant, a picnic lunch. The setting is not so much the important part, as the company.
Oh, and we happened to get the meal free of charge – a perk which we enjoyed!
So, as mentioned previously, we had been charged to use our own bags at Extra Foods. Not a happy camper – or shopper!
Today we took our bags in, and went through the till with a cashier we know. We told her of our previous adventure. The manager was standing nearby as we heard the cashier explain that things were now corrected.
Oh, back up a day or two. We had sent off our complaint to Extra Foods via the internet. An automatic response was returned mentioning that there had been an extraordinary volume of emails recently and they would get back to us as soon as possible. Perhaps others had noted the same complaint.
Back to the manager overhearing our conversation. He immediately pointed out how the computer/till now accommodated the “free bags” and even gave us PC points.
So, thanks for those who listen and make changes work!
I offered a challenge to our church congregation today.
I suggested that they pray at least 42 times this coming week. Each prayer time would be ten seconds long. Using the following prayer:
God, help me to
- See Thee more clearly
- Love Thee more dearly
- Follow Thee more nearly
Day by Day
I explained that this prayer (which became a song in the 1960’s musical “Godspell”) was a written prayer of Richard of Chichester in 1235 AD, and was based on Colossians 1:10 (check out how John Wycliffe translated that verse!).
Today I encouraged people to pray the prayer 3 times. Tomorrow (Monday) four times (breakfast, lunch, supper, bed time), Tuesday five times, Wednesday six times, Thursday seven times, Friday eight times, and Saturday nine times – for a total of seven minutes of prayer during the week.
But that seven minutes could change your life. See what God may say to you!!!!
Pastors are said to be on call 24/7.
When I hear that appellation, “on call”, I cringe. We have had doctors lately who found that their family lives were devastated by the suffocation of constant accessibility. Oil crew workers get the same call and the divorce rate can attest to the problems that arise.
Today I was called to an unscheduled hospital visit. The patient is fine – the rush to the hospital a wise precaution.
The call came in the midst of other duties. My reaction almost surprised me! “This is what I’m here for!” No sense of infringement, or dislike or even reluctance. Of course, it doesn’t hurt when my wife was also eager to attend a visit to the hospital.
So we sat, chatted with relatives, prayed and provided what service we could. Perhaps this is really a case of “listening for the call” rather than feeling that I am “on call!”