Saturday: &c

 

Saturday opens still exhausted from yesterday and even after a decent night's sleep 8:30 pm to 4:00 am! Wedding today, a young Air Force couple, I'm to officiate for a chaplain at Tyndall who is an Episcopal priest. 

Finish prepping for tomorrow's Sunday School class. The readings are from Exodus, a psalm, our final reading from Paul's letter to the Philippians, and in Matthew's gospel Jesus tells another kingdom parable. I'm going to focus on Philippians. All are invited and welcome, 9:15 to 10:15, may be in the Library, may be in Battin Hall, may be in the church sanctuary; I'll let folks know first thing in the morning, soon as I see which is best. Not the library if it's still wet or damp or smells musty after last week's water leak that flooded the new carpet!

But today. October the Tenth. More hurricanes in the Gulf this season than ever. Scientists, seem to attribute global climate change that includes warming seas. Memories today. Two year anniversary of Oct 10, 2018 Category 5 Hurricane Michael from which our area still shows ruin and still is recovering. In the ICU at Sacred Heart, Pensacola that day, waiting and watching and witnessing, hurricane coming ashore on my computer screen and daughter in the bed in front of me after brain surgery and a stroke. Returning into ten months of hurrication exile that included long in SoWalton County while renovation and repairs got underway in uninhabitable home; repairs are still underway, but we have been back home in 7H since August 2019. Covid19 with its worry, fear, stress and strain, facemasks, social distancing, shelter in place at home, depression, people sick, some 210-thousand Americans dead from it. And now  on top of everything, heaviest ever presidential election in American history, unprecedented anxiety, fear, violence, threats, hatred and division, a foreboding time of gathering doom. Watching a once beloved nation collapse, it's fair time for a white man to look back and wish he had lived in the late 19th century into the early 20th century.

Today dawned with wind, cloudy skies and angry Bay, probably from Hurricane Delta. Got the folks on the Louisiana Gulf Coast in my heart and mind.

XXX & PTL

T+