active kid

There was a lot that I wanted to get on with today.

The girl who prepares our Sunday morning worship services is away all this week. So there was that to attend to straight off. Plus the evening service. Plus the Wednesday lunchtime service, too.

So a fair bit of time was spent on that today - preparing orders of service.

Which all really starts with my trying to hear what it is that the Lord is saying. It isn't always easy and it generally takes some time. But I find it always exciting - and it isn't usually long before I'm finding myself caught up in it all. And I lose all sense of time.

Anyway. I got the basic groundwork done for all three coming services.

It's one of those weeks when I know I need to get up and running good and quick. Or I'll be chasing the clock all the time.

There were folk to see as well. A lady back in hospital. In a lot of pain.

I called in to see her and prayed for God's healing and help. The word of God again. A 'Let there be light', as it were, spoken once again into the darkness of the lady's pain.

There was food to be bought as well. Tomorrow's my soup-making day. So I looked in to the store on my way back from the hospital.

I've got to know the lady at the check-out just a bit. An older lady, called Edith, I think. Or Enid, or something like that (I must take a closer look! But you can see we're not on first-name terms or anything quite yet!).

She's good for a laugh and when she offered me some 'Active Kids Vouchers' she added - '...or have you left school now?'

It must be my youthful looks!

Or something.

Have I left school? Well, no. Not really. I'm still very much a learner.

And, from that point of view at least, I guess I'm still just a grown up 'active kid'.

Listening day by day. Learning from the Lord. And glad to be able to be active in so many ways.

And sharing in what God's doing among us now.