Big day For All of Us

Today was a big day in our family and at Little Church on the Lane.  First, Faith had her first day in her new Sunday School class.  She is now upstairs with the big kids in a kindergarten/first grade class.  Helen Gulledge is her new teacher.  Amazingly, there were six kids in the class.  That is pretty big for Little Church.  I am so glad it went well.  Although there are five boys in the class, I am glad that she has kids her age to be with.

The second big thing that happened was that I spoke to the congregation about “peace”.  One person each week has been talking about The Fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness and self control.  I chose to talk about peace.  I referred to the time when Faith was first born and my dad told me that he had prostate cancer.  I was so afraid that he was going to die.  I cried and prayed to God to cure him.  During my prayer a verse from Isaiah that I had memorized popped into my head, “You will keep in perfect peace, him whose mind is steadfast because he trusts you.”  All of a sudden a wave of peace came over me.  I trusted God and trusted His word.  I knew that my dad was going to be okay.  I no longer worried about him because I knew that God had given me a promise:  a promise that cancer would not kill my father.  I had a supernatural peace about the situation.  That was the peace that I spoke of yesterday.

Then it was my Dad’s turn to point them to that peace.  He announced to the congregation that he would be retiring as the Head Pastor of Little Church on the Lane after 19 years of service.  They were all shocked.  You could hear a pin drop.  Nineteen years is a long time to work at one place and to build relationships with the people there.  Many of them were members when he first arrived at Little Church, members that he has married, and members that have grown up there.  Dad wants to retire, play golf, and play with his grandchildren.  He will have five more weeks at Little Church before he retires on November 3rd.

Believe it or not, the day was just beginning.  After church the kids and I drove 30 minutes up to Davidson, NC to see Tom complete his second Half Ironman.   He finished in 6 hours 25 minutes.  He said that the run course was very hilly.  From now on, he is racing closer to the beach….less hills.  The kids and I cheered him on at the finish line.  We were all very proud of him.  It takes a lot of training and dedication to complete a race like that. (Better him than me.)  After the race the kids played in the two bounce houses that were there while Tom rested.  Way to go Tom!!

Yesterday was a very exciting day in our household.  We all finished the race that we were given!


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