Spent the entire day at the hospital again but thankfully they allowed Angie to come home around 5:00. We are so thankful it’s not her heart – it’s the bulging disc in her neck.

So we are spending a quiet evening at the house. Jaron is off with his soccer friends but Melody is here. We all played “guessing games” at the supper table. This is one of my favorite times! I love to laugh with Melody, and when Angie pitches in, it’s even better! We laugh so much and it is so much fun! Melody loves to see me lose, and I love to give her a hard time. So it all works out! It reminds me of those great times when I was a kid in Columbus and Uncle Murray and Aunt Martha would visit, and we would sit at the table after supper and just talk and talk. Oh, how I loved those time! We did it too, in Wren, but most of the time we didn’t sit down to eat until after 9:00 at night, so we didn’t have much time afterwards to sit and talk. We usually ate, then I went to play bass or whatever in my room while Mom cleaned up the kitchen. Then we would all meet in the den to watch the last part of the news, including the hallowed 3 minutes of sports, and then watch Johnny Carson’s monologue before we turned off the TV and went to bed. Great family memories!

Today’s Top 50 Person: Andy “Nesbit” Sanders

Today’s Christian Song: The Warrior Is A Child by Twila Paris

Today’s Quote: “Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, but faith looks up!”

Today’s Thanks: Means of Communication. I think about what life was like when I was growing up in Wren, MS. We had one phone in the house and it was on the desk in the den, with a rotary dial. Even though the prefix was 256, you could just dial 6 and the other four numbers. When I first moved there in 1974, we were on a party line! There was no such thing as cell phones, IPads, texting, laptops, Facebook, Skype, or any other way that we normally communicate now. We used to laugh when we considered that you could actually look at someone when you talked to them over the phone. Now it is actually a reality. Amazing, and I am thankful that we have the technology that allows to talk with whoever we want to, at basically any time.

Today’s Verse: “Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.” Psalm 37:3 – 6.