Father's Day weekend

I've really got to get back into the swing of blogging. We had a very busy weekend. Thursday night, we went to Pack & Pray to send off our folks going to CityReach 08 in Washington, PA. CityReach is a program where people from all across the Nation go to one church and community to help spread the Word of God. They help the church & community in many ways - Bible schools, construction, yard work, free car washes as an opportunity to share Jesus or at least, give them a pamphlet about the local church, etc. Our young people and leaders always receive a blessing. On Friday, I shopped for John for Father's Day and his birthday is this Wednesday. Saturday, we took all 6 granddaughters to the pool - spent about 3 hours in the pool myself (the whole time the grandbabies were in). My knees and sciatica have been speaking to me ever since, but it was worth it. Sunday (Father's Day), we went to the church in Point of Rocks - one of our "kids" was preaching and asked if I would come play for the service. Dave gave a great sermon on our responsibility to train up children in the ways of the Lord. He applied to anyone who had contact with children. Then we asked Dave, Jill & Jack (their 1 yr old son) to join us at Golden Corral where we met our boys and grandbabies. Cliff & Julie are on the CityReach trip. So we had a total of 13 at lunch seated at 2 tables. Our waitress asked if Jack were our grandson and I said yes. She then said is that all you have. I pointed to the other table and said they're ours too. She said all of them. I said yes. She said she quit after one that was enough. I jokingly said we just said go forth and multiply. She just shook her head. Those of you who read the blog, know we love kids (of all heights) and have many in our "family" - a good number of which we did not give birth to, but we love them none the less. It was a busy time, but the Lord blessed beyond measure. Look for the blessings around you today...