"Why are you up so early?" I sleepily asked my husband when I looked at my phone and saw it was only 6:30. We had gotten home from our trip after midnight, and I wanted to sleep as long as possible before getting ready for church. I got up shortly after seven (I thought), and when I went back into the room I found my spouse sound asleep in bed! Well, it was still early, so I ate breakfast, checked the internet, and decided to wash and style my hair.
When I finally got Howard up, he mumbled, "You know our clocks are wrong. We didn't change them before we left." What? That meant I had squandered precious minutes! It had actually been past 8 o'clock when I got up! No way could we get to Sunday School now, and by the time he got ready, church had been in session for half an hour.
We got there halfway into the morning message! The pastor was giving an illustration about diets, then said we should be a pig! I was missing something! Then I realized he was referring to the joke about the chicken only making a contribution to breakfast, but the bacon meant the pig gave his all. (When I explained our tardiness to a friend after church, she laughed that someone had showed up at noon last week. They had set their clocks back instead of forward.)
We were just happy we had gotten home safely and the Lord had worked everything out about our train relay adventure. Our sons had planned that Jamie would pick us up at Mark's, then Mark would come to Houston on Friday to take us back to his house near Austin to catch the train home on Saturday. I was concerned that they would have to make the 2 1/2 hour trip twice in one day, then Mark called saying they would be there on Thursday and would spend the night. What good news!
Turns out that he was asked to do a funeral in Houston on Thursday, allowing them to stay overnight and giving us more time to visit, as well as go out for dinner at a fabulous place across from the Galeria. Even better, we got back to their house early enough on Friday for them to grill out, then we all went to a tent revival sponsored by their church.
The revival was to draw the Hispanic community to the newly formed Spanish church. The speaker preached in Spanish, then an interpreter translated his words into English. Mark and Rhonda were there on the first night, when our daughter-in-law experienced a wonderful physical healing! Having had RA for over 20 years, her joints had incurred damage, with one of her arms permanently bent at the elbow. After prayer, she could straighten it out for the first time in 12 years!
Howard and I wasted no time in going forward for prayer. We were instructed to touch the part of our body that needed healing, then after prayer, the evangelist asked us to do something we couldn't do before. Howard has trouble with his knees, and I looked to see him flexing his knees and doing deep knee bends! He can move about without pain now! The hives I had been plagued with for two nights did not trouble me that night! I could only think they were from eating Chinese food, but whatever the cause, they have not come back. Praise the Lord!
We came home full of God's blessings, including a new iPad from Jamie and a new pair of athletic shoes that Howard bought at our sons' insistence. Now he walks in comfort and feels like a new man! Isn't that what vacations are supposed to do?
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