Moonshadows!

As I walked into my bedroom after church, I knew I would not need my light on since the moon was brightly lighting my way. It was fantastic! When I left home to go to church, the moon had just risen and was as white as the clouds which attempted to hide it. They failed!


Justin told me he considered howling when he spotted it, and I told him that I actually did howl, when Judy J. and I walked across the parking lot to my car! She had called me about going to dinner before church, but I explained my plans of dining in, since I had made a batch of vegetable beef soup. I scooped up a container of the hot soup and took it for her to sample, as she asked for my recipe. What recipe??? 


Mike S., who does landscaping for his living, told me in church that cookies afterward at the fellowship would be his dinner, since he'd had no time to grab anything. If I'd known this, I would have brought some for him, too. Judy asked me if she should give her container to him and I said, "After I give it to you, it is your decision to do with it as you wish..." I made up a different dish to give her, plus will share my so-called recipe!


We had a special treat at church as Suzanne was playing her viola. Judy C. watches the kids after school and, in order to make it to church on time, brings them home to Orange Park where Suzanne collects them. It works out time-wise for Suzanne and kids to worship at GS, and perfectly to have her accompany our music! 


Suzanne remarked afterward about the amount of noise and visiting going on during the pre-service music, a problem at many churches, I hear. It wasn't me, this time, but must admit that having our Fellowship Hall under renovation might contribute to the racket in the sanctuary. 


Even at Victory, which has a narthex/gathering area, visiting and noise occurs in the sanctuary during the pre-service music. I think part of the problem is that so many of our older folks have poor hearing and do not realize how loud they are 'whispering' or might not be aware of the pre-service music/quiet meditation time taking place. I have included Worship Manners in the Flock Talk but fear most people skim over stuff such as this.


We have had more sorrow in our community, again where a person has no skills in dealing with a problem. A young man, age 28, was fired from his position for some reason as a language teacher at Episcopal High School. He returned with a gun in his guitar case and killed the Headmistress and then himself. The woman had been there at the school for 35 years, but not always as the head of the school. He was a graduate of a college prep school in Indiana, where his father is on the staff, and has stunned both communities with this wretched act. No students were harmed, only the two adults. Horrifying!


The "hero" in recent days is the mom who saved her children from the tornado by wrapping them in blankets and lying on top of them during the tornadoes up north. She did save their lives but in so doing, her legs had to be cut off after being trapped under her fallen home. 


In related news, a couple in an area county had their  one-year old twins removed from the home, as well as their two year old sibling after the DCF discovered the younger ones tied up, in separate rooms of the house. The news report does not indicate the reason why they were tied up and not the two year old, but that is beside the point. One woman risks her life to save her kids, and another has hers tied up with straps, face down on a bed. The parents of the twins and two-year old need a house to fall on them, so to speak!