Sunday we were welcomed into the life of the Cranberry Community United Presbyterian Church and I was able to help lead the service. I also gave the children's talk using a "show and tell" about the importance of using our time, energy and financial resources to do what God wants. I used the jar of 10 walnuts and rice to illustrate how priorities work. If you put the rice in the jar first (representing all the things we want to do) instead of the walnuts (representing what God wants us to do) then you can't get the walnuts all in. But if you put the walnuts in first, the rice fits in just fine. There were about15 children up front for the story. Lots of fun!
Afterward, we had a quick lunch at McDonalds. When we got home, Dee had a message from her sister, Ruth, who lives in Butler. Ruth's husband El had died suddenly earlier this morning. Shortly after that I had to go to the Air Guard base to lead worship, so Dee headed to Butler to be with her sister, Ruth at the funeral home. They've planned for a funeral on Wednesday morning with viewings on Tuesday. I'll be heading to NJ on Wednesday to conduct a funeral for an old friend at the Seaview Baptist Church on Thursday morning.
We pretty much stayed around the house the rest of the evening getting ready for the week ahead. Dee will begin a new job (as a receptionist) at the Worthington Assisted Living and Residence here in Mars. She'll be working 4 days a week to start, but since she'll be filling in for a woman who is having a baby, she'll do full-time for awhile until the person comes back from maternity leave. She gave her other job notice that she'd accepted another job. They were saddened to hear she was leaving because they liked her work.
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