They got back I think Thursday evening and all gave testimonies about the trip today in church with Pastor Josh ending with reading and applying Psalms 23 to our everyday life and their experiences this past week. I thought that was amazing since Dad told me how he and Mom had spent a night where Mom quoted this Psalm and talked about it to Dad.
Someone - I think it was Josh - said the guys had discussed that maybe there should be a women's wilderness trip. I looked at Ruth sitting next to me and we both shook our heads no. I then made the comment, "maybe if I was 30 years younger" and it hit me - one of the guys that helped paint the trim on my house - it was his birthday today - his 29th birthday. Man I'm old :) I'll be honest, I might briefly consider a wilderness trip as long as I didn't have to carry a canoe from lake to lake over the portage (sp?). The guys each carried something like a 40 pound pack and then had to help carry their two-man canoe over their heads from lake to lake - blick.
This afternoon is the first day of LWF inner-church softball between our small groups and my doc advised I shouldn't play with getting the three cortisone shots in my left shoulder Friday and also having my first physical therapy treatment. So I've been lazy this afternoon - having Butler time, reading and taking a nap. I'm getting geared up to go back to work tomorrow too.
Dad told me yesterday he was going to ride with someone to Bloomfield today and left me a voicemail that things were going so well that they were staying for the evening service at the Bloomfield Open Bible Church and then drive home. This is the church Pastor Chuck Courtney - who officiated at Mom's service - pastors.
