Thermostat Error

Someone messed with the temperature thermostat here in S Texas. One day it was 90 degrees, the next day was 51!! It does warm up on some days, other days it does not. Today is a bit warmer than 50 degrees, but tomorrow another cold front is supposed to move in. What happened to our flip flop capri weather?? I do wish the weather would change gradually – not such a shock to the system.

We had our first chaplain meeting of the season yesterday. As the new chaplains became better acquainted with us older seasoned chaplains, we asked them about their first impressions of being a RV resort chaplain. For most of them, it was a new and different concept than serving in a church setting. We love seeing their enthusiasm and energy!!! Hopefully they will feel that same way at the end of the season. It was a great time for fellowship, enjoying each other’s company, words of encouragement, and prayer.  A major point of concern to these newbies is how to handle the changes in the world today. How to handle the same sex marriages and relationships in their parks, folks who are not married and living together for financial or other purposes who want to have a “commitment service”. It was interesting as we all discussed how to handle situations like these. We just have to make ourselves available to all of these alternative lifestyle folks and let God lead us. As we circled and sang praises to God, we prayed for our Chairman of the Board and his wife. He has been fighting kidney cancer for a while, been on dialysis for a while now. They made a decision to move back home to Oklahoma when it was discovered that the cancer had moved to his lungs. Please pray as they make quick decisions to move to Oklahoma, get settled in their new pace, so he can enter hospice there. His biggest concern right now is to have his wife settled before his health deteriorates so badly that she is not left with a lot of decisions and a big move to take care of herself. Please pray for God’s intervention in this matter.

It was cold again as Fred and his partner, Doug, delivered in the colonias. I can now take a break for a few months as Doug wants to help out on Fridays. We were blessed with an extra donation on Thursday, as well as some clothing – the guys took all they could possibly handle on Friday. Saturday, an amazing anonymous donation came in of 104!! small canned hams for our Christmas distribution. I imagine you are wondering how we could receive so many hams and not know the donor? They came through a third party who acted as a proxy. We still need a few more, but we were assured that those, too, would be donated.  We also received a few Spanish and English Bibles to distribute. God’s provision never ceases to amaze me.

As we continue our study of pop verses (popular verses) in the Bible, today’s verse from Hebrews reminds us of faith – what is faith and how do we continue to uphold our faith in the Lord. We take so much on faith today from human resources – mostly electronic devises. When we type in a location on our devices, we take it for granted that the GPS or other program will direct on the right path. We even place our faith in the fact that we are getting the correct directive from our politicians, government, teachers, and even preachers. We seem to place our faith in artificial intelligence rather than divine intelligence. Abraham went to the land God directed him to – not knowing where it even was. That was faith. Do you have that type of faith in God? It seems that in todays’ world, that type of faith is dwindling away. Hebrews begins with God’s divinity and impounds on His earthly humanity. All of it is based on faith. Many in the Bible lived on that faith – Abraham, Saul, Noah, Able, David, Sarah, and Samuel to just name a few. Hebrews 11:1 says that “faith is the reality of what we hope for, the proof of what we don’t see”. Living a life of faith opens the door to great possibilities. A life of faith is not a perfect life – it is not a state of being but a state of becoming.