First things first. Happy Birdday Tj! Forty-one! A few more years and your age and IQ will be the same! Ha!

This has been the week from you can well imagine. Yesterday morning I left Abilene headed north and just saw a few sprinkles on my windshield. When I finally turned East just short of Anson, the road became wet. The farther I drove the wetter the road became. Finally I arrived at the office and shortly after getting inside, the bottom fell out of the sky, over, and over, and over again! The office building has a metal roof and it still became so loud in here we stopped answering the phone because we couldn't hear. Before it was all over we had received between four and five inches of rain! Lightning and thunder, a little hail, wind, we had it all! We turned all of the computers off except mine although we did disconnect the power supply. We used the satellite feed and watched the Doppler radar as the weather pelted us over and over again. Finally just before lunch, things settled down and we were finally able to go back to work as usual. Isn't it always a good feeling to pack a whole day in a half day!

Looking down the road, Friday is a long time away!

I have a few personal calls to make today. I need to call St. Lawrence. I haven't talked with them in a few weeks. I just need to know what is happening out there. I have to call the central appraisal district. They have sent me a notice of appraisal as a DBA. I don't know who has their head where, but I may have to help them pull it out!

Rian got his job at Frienship! He called yesterday morning and he had already been to sign his contract. He was planning on going to O.L. Slaton after lunch to clean out his classroom, clean out his desk at the field house, turn in his keys and go by LISD Administration to give them his letter of resignation. He was also planning on talking with Mr. Guerrero and James Morton. They have really been on his case trying to figure out what he was going to do and really it wasn't him at all, it was the Frienship School Board. Anyway, Rian, Erica, and Reid were leaving out mid-afternoon with the new travel trailer to go to Roaring Springs for a couple of days. Congratulations Rian!

FATHER, I really need YOU in this day and the remainder of the week. I ask that YOU fill it and surround me with YOU. I pray for Krl and her renewal. Heal her and make her whole. I lift up Memama, Pepa, Ol, Hag, B., Lillie, Michelle, Aimee, Ashlyn Kate, Jennifer, Tj, Anna, Jess, those continuing to recover from their injuries, Dr. Mackie, Yaenga, Jeanine, and Sandi for YOUR miracle of healing. I pray for those hurting from loss and I ask YOUR comfort for them. I pray for those of us who struggle in following YOU. I pray for our spiritual family and our leaders. I pray for the efforts being made to expand YOUR kingdom. Mighty GOD are YOU.