Where the (water) lilies bloom

by chuckofish

I was very happy to see that the water lily is blooming in daughter #2’s fish pond!

Very exciting indeed. Almost as exciting as going to Costco for the first time where “We can buy anything we’d ever want here!”

The weekend here started off cold and rainy and then turned warm and rainy and that always means severe weather. We dodged another bullet, but it was an unsettled weekend. Par for the course.

On Saturday the OM and I went to a secular “Celebration of Life” of an old friend who died suddenly in an accident at home. He was one of the first people we met when me moved to Kirkwood 28 years ago. He was the father of three boys, one who was our son’s best friend in elementary school. He was the coach of the soccer team and the basketball team and a scouter. He always reminded me of Henry Fonda. His family went to our old church, but over the years they had drifted away from the Episcopal Church and from organized religion. It was a sad gathering on many levels and yet another reminder that we are all mortal and that our number can come up any day.

So put your house in order. And by that I mean your spiritual house as well. You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

“Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning, 36 and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks. 37 Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them. 38 If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants! 39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into. 40 You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

–Luke 12:35-40

On Sunday we had a good sermon on Church Discipline based on Titus 1:10-16. We also had an excellent Sunday School class about the Epic of Gilgamesh, which pre-dates the Bible. I love that the adult Sunday School classes are always full and people are interested in learning new/old things.

Meanwhile Mr. Smith spent the night last night because daughter #1 had to get up early and fly to Wyoming.

So I am taking him to the kennel today. (This is the same kennel where we boarded our dog back in the 1960s! They have been in business since 1935. Isn’t that something?) He will have a nice spa vacay while daughter #1 works hard to keep him supplied with Newman’s Own dog treats.

Enjoy your Monday!