This week was started by me calling the San Saba News to see if my first article was received and talked with Yvonne. Editor Donna called back with my article in hand so now I know about the mail service from Zanesville to San Saba.
When I talk to people they usually ask these questions: Q. How do you like your new home? A. It is not home yet. Home is where the heart is and my heart is still in Texas. Q. Are you unpacked and settled? A. 95% unpacked; 10% settled. Q. Have you sold your house yet? A. No new owners yet. Q. What church are you going to? A. Visiting churches right now. Can’t find one like The Father’s House. Q. How is Ellie doing with the change? A. I think she wants to go back to Texas.
I had a dentist appointment at 7 a.m. this morning so I read the Bible and devotions after I got back. The following paragraph from My Utmost For His Highest by Oswald Chambers will be a help for me today, and I hope it will inspire others also.
“Determine to know more than others. If you do not cut the moorings, (Webster’s definition for moorings: Anchors, cables, etc. to secure) God will have to break them by a storm and send you out, Launch all on God, go out on the great swelling tide of His purpose, and you will get your eyes open. If you believe in Jesus, you are not to spend all your time in the smooth waters just inside the harbour bar, full of delight, but always moored; you have to get out through the harbour bar into the great deeps of God and begin to know yourself, begin to have spiritual discernment.”
After my devotions, I was delighted to get a call from Suzana Hernandez and we had such a great conversation. On my agenda this afternoon is sending a belated birthday package to Joan Van Gorp before my daughter Jenny takes me for a meeting for health insurance. So, I am checking things off another list. I am looking forward to being “listless” and wondering how that works.