LIFE IN THE MINISTRY....

Just got back from a sweet wedding. Very young little folks. Hardly more than teenagers, if that. Not too sure the parents were real happy, but hope and pray they make it in their marriage.

I have to say going to a wedding was a nice change. The last month or so we've gone to five funerals. Not all old folks either. As a matter of fact two were suicides. One 23 year old man and the other a 26 year old mother of three adorable boys. Sometimes I can distance myself from the pain and suffering of others and sometimes I simply can't. Most of the time I can keep my emotions in check, but sometimes I can't do that either. Depends on the music, the emotions of the family, etc. One funny thing to say is that people in a small rural town tend to play tapes of country music that tells of the loved one gone on and how we'll miss them and cry for them and all kinds of stuff that make you want to lay on the floor and wail and carry on. It's a funny thing for me and Rudy because we go to so many funerals, and when the funeral starts with those tapes playing we look at each other and do the eye roll thing. Rudy says it's hard enough on the family, but to add that kind of music is more that they can take. Yet, here in little old C-ville they do it every time.

To end this little blog on a note of sweetness, I got a knock on the door a few minutes ago. One of our sweet little ladies who doesn't have much money stoped by with a coupon for Mr.Gatti's that says..."Two buffets and Two Drinks for $10.99." She handed me exactly $11.00. She said for us to go have dinner. I thought that was so sweet. It wasn't 15 or 20 dollars. That's what most people would do. It was exactly $11.00 and "with" a coupon. That was so cute. She is one of the sweetest ladies in our church.

Life in the Ministry... weddings, funerals, and eating out.