Family and Trip to Tulsa

A week ago Monday evening, David and Charity arrived at Gramma's with their 2 year old twins, Josiah and Gideon and older son, Hayden (4 yrs.). David is my nephew (brother John's son). He works for the Sheriff's Dept. in Riverside, California. Bill and I joined them for dinner and soon learned how to tell the twins apart. Gideon has a sunny disposition and has a ready smile on his face. Josiah is more serious. Both have beautiful blue eyes and a mop of blond curls. Tuesday morning, the kids came to our house to visit and play in the park. It had been raining, so we had a foot washing on the patio before they left. I think Hayden enjoyed the experience more because he found the most puddles.

Saturday, Bill and I drove to Arby's on the southwest side of Tulsa to pick up Noel. His wife, Janice drove from Springfield with her father, Bailey and son, Mark who had gallbladder surgery yesterday. Noel felt so bad that he wouldn't be able to be with Mark for his surgery.

Yesterday, (Monday) I drove Noel to Dr. Kahn's office. While there, he had a pacemaker check. Noel is five years younger than I am, and is far too young to have these problems. Before heading home, we had lunch at the OK Heart Hospital Cafe. I felt right at home and was surprised that Noel seemed disoriented until I remembered that he had been a patient and had never eaten in the Cafe. Smile!

David served his parole and is now a free man! He flew to Seattle last weekend to visit his daughter. Fantastic! He is rewriting his book and has a full life ahead.

Bill is taking on another GCU class and has been teaching me how to post homework and grades. He also continues to teach English full-time at TLC. If that isn't enough, he's directing the Christmas musical practices after worship service. We have 21 people who have taken books. One man went hunting for the weekend, but showed up for choir. A woman went to urgent care Sunday morning for eye allergies, but then showed up for choir. Wow!

I'm following the political candidates and the Wall St. demonstrations carefully. I remember what Dad use to say. "Where God is, there is order. Where evil exists, there is chaos." Where God is, you find the "fruit of the spirit".