Be Careful to Whom You Listen

I'm free once again. I was asked to speak to De Motte Christian School's chapel on Oct 10th. I thought.... I could probably do that....a couple hundred kids and a few teachers. No sweat. When I got to school this morning I learned that it was pastor appreciation breakfast and approximately twenty pastors would be in the audience. I just shook my head. And why was it that noone had filled me in on that little detail????? Hmmmm. Probably because I would have had second thoughts. At any rate, it is over and it was a joy to encourage kids from five to thirteen to be careful to whom they listen. Perhaps one or two pastors were also encouraged. God help us all.

We were supposed to be enroute to Chicago Union Station right now to take my dad and wife to catch a train to visit her daugher and husband in Denver. When I was cleaning up my stuff at school after chapel, my phone rang. The message was that Grandpa and Grandma had cancelled their trip because Grandpa didn't feel well. Talk about an instant pain in the stomach. The message said Grandma was taking him to the doctor. I drove over to the doctors office and went inside. They were already in the back so I walked out to my car and waited for them. Soon they came out of the door and my dad was jolly as could be as he chatted with a long time friend. I began to calm down. He couldn't be too sick. The upshot was that the doctor had ordered him to take two blood pressure pills instead of one and the med had brought his bp down too far, leaving him weak and without stamina. Not a good condition to go to a place that is 5280 feet above sea level. So they cancelled their trip. I'm grateful it wasn't something worse.

To God be praise!