This Labor Day weekend Cissy and I have had varied activities. It was great to watch so many of the various college football games on opening weekend. For me the biggest surprise was watching Alabama maul Clemson. All the teams of our family won … Wake Forest, U GA, Georgia Tech, and Auburn. Yeah teams!!!
Saturday evening granddaughter Ansley Mae Cloud celebrated her second birthday. The festivities were held in the barn at her house. Even Dixie the horse stopped by to give her good wishes. As the party was breaking up a copperhead snake was seen scrambling under a car. Shovels were quickly dispatched to its head, and children got a lively quick lesson on poisonous snakes.
Our Sunday morning group discussed “prayerful community” based on James 5:13-18. We noted seven references to a form of the word prayer in those verses. It was mentioned it is hard to develop honest, caring relationships if people do not know each other.
We did an activity with the “bean pot” to test and broaden our knowledge of each other. Each person received five beans. Then each person made a statement about themself and placed a bean in the pot. Each person who could truthfully make the statement also put a bean in the pot. Each person who could not make the same statement had to take a bean from the pot. The object was to share something unique and be the first person to run out of beans.
More importantly, we learned more about each other. For example, one lady has two masters degrees, another one had a brain tumor, one guy had played the violin professionally, someone has been married for almost 40 years (the spouse got to put a bean in the pot too!), mint chocolate chip ice cream was the favorite of one guy (me), and so on it went. Hopefully, as we spend the next three months studying community in the New Testament, we will experience even more sense of community.
Sunday evening we celebrated a great pre-Labor Day picnic at the Plum Nelly Campground in Ellijay. Bill and Deanie Fincher were the awesome hosts for way over 100+ people. Folks brought covered dishes, and the Finchers supplied the delicious home-cooked barbeque. A local band played a wide variety of rock music from the last 40 years.
Today on Labor Day I am fat and happy … and about to head to the YMCA for exercise … before dinner out with friends tonight.
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