August 3rd the TCC family honored us for seven years of serving with them in the Kingdom. What a wonderful time we had. The bulletin board was full of encouraging words, never underestimate the power of words for good or evil, they are the building blocks of our psyche. The Scripture speaks about words in season being like apples of gold in pitchers of silver, in other words they are precious and worth displaying. Not only were there gracious written words but other expressions of love. The offering received was truly above what we could have expected and was immediately put to good use for a trip we were to take at the end of the week (next blog will discuss the trip). There was a cake, for those who didn’t see it you would have to have a great imagination to picture what I will describe. It was the pastor in confection glory. The cake was a small man sitting upright, holding a Bible. He was bald with glasses and looked amazingly like my hubby, mmm I always knew he was yummy! There was great mirth in the thought of taking the Pastor’s head off in order to cut the cake and it was quite a ceremony. However before the cake, beyond the words these wonderful family members did something that I will never forget; one-by-one they came forward to wash our feet, from the elder to the younger. I was greatly humbled and blessed as these each took a turn washing and praying over us. This is one of those moments in time when you can’t express in the natural what took place in the spiritual. I believe they washed our feet in preparation for the journey ahead, a journey into new beginnings that will take us all places in the spiritual realm that we have only dreamed and imagined. A mere thanks would not suffice, but the days ahead we pledge to journey on together into this great future, sharing all that this journey will bring. We are family and we are blessed.
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