Betsy BlueBonnet

The flowers and grass just love it too.  Little Miss Opal has been working in her yard every day, as it is cooler now and she just putzes along. She has planted some beautiful red leafed plants all along the back of her trailer, and is busy working on some neighbor’s yards also. We are nicknaming her Betsy Blue Bonnet, as she has sown blue bonnet seeds all along the bank of the lake. Miss Opal lives across the lake from us, but we can see her home clearly, so I keep a close watch on her when she is outside working in her yard. The weather her in S Texas is unbelievably wonderful – cool with rain enough to keep the ground moist. 

It has been a rather quiet week otherwise. Yesterday we ran a lot of errands and tied up loose ends that have been hanging out there for a while. Fred made connections with an outlet for tortillas and we picked some up on Thursday for the Friday distribution. Enough for everyone to receive one package in addition to the other items we distributed. Produce was low this week, but again, enough for everyone as we could fill in with donated canned goods, an ensure type of drink, and crackers.

Children’s Haven International is also fairly quiet – the perfect time for Director Betsy Chicon to catch up on her photo albums for Facebook, and try to finish up her newsletter.  The thrift store has not been terribly busy, but for some reason the sales have been very good for this time of year. All of the proceeds from the store go to support the refuge in Reynosa. I volunteer there on Tuesday afternoons where I do enjoy the interaction with the local residents as well as the Converted Texans (those who started out as Winter Texans and then decided to settle here germanely).  

We are still trying to get used to the time change of our Sunday Morning service. The most irritating of the whole schedule change is that we have to leave Sunday School before it is over in order to get to the service on time. (we only have to walk a few yards, but Sunday School is not over before our 10:45 service starts). We really do not want to change services, as we love the contemporary service and Pastor Robert Perales. Guess we will just ride it out until the end of May, when the time change will be evaluated again.

Pastor Robert ended his “Courageous” sermon series this morning with being courageous in a changing world.  We need to be courageous enough to share our faith to the world. God left us with a set of instructions but we often ignore them, just as we ignore the instructions when putting together a new piece of furniture or a bicycle for your child. We think we know exactly what to do until we wind up with extra parts. If these instructions were not important, why do you think they were included?? Or left to us in the Bible? We need to take a good look at what we are not doing to tell others about Christ as God commanded us to do. (Matthew 28:16-20). We are ambassadors for Christ. You don’t have to preach to others, or memorize Scripture – just tell others what God has done in your life. That I the greatest testimony of all.