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e can but hope are y all getting as tired of these maybe today s and hopeful posts as i am update this evening the buyer didn t want the house didn t like my neighbor s fence as if i could do anything about that posted in moving leave a reply and so it goes posted on june 27 2011 by abbiewatters reply heard from the realtor that one of the potential prospects is a no go we had somebody new come through and look at the house just after noon today session meeting tonight electronic packet came on friday this is the first time we ve had everything including the docket and the consent agenda electronically i m borrowing big al s ipad so i don t have to kill a tree slowly but surely we march forward into the 20th century posted in moving phpc leave a reply tough morning posted on june 26 2011 by abbiewatters 1 i m not sure i ve said often enough how much i appreciate our pastor and head of staff dr blair monie at preston hollow presbyterian church he preached an excellent sermon on genesis 22 the story of abraham and the sacrifice of isaac that s generally thought of as one of the tougher texts to preach on as he said in the sermon larry king says that s why he is an atheist because he couldn t believe in a god who would require child sacrifice of one of his followers i know a lot of preachers shy away from that text because i ve seen some of the angst around the interwebs all week when it appeared in the lectionary what made it even rougher was the announcement before the prayers of the people that the daughter son in law and baby grandson of one of the couples who are members of the church had been killed in an auto accident yesterday the five year old grandson is in children s medical center in dallas i frankly never heard a word of the prayer i was crying too hard and following all of that we had a baptism of one of the babies of the congregation the mom carried the baby in while the dad led two older brothers 4 and 2 years old by the hands isn t all this a metaphor for what we believe that god requires everything from us but only because god has given everything to us they re not cheap these gifts that were given to us and even though we lost a family to death they aren t really gone they re waiting for us bathed in god s good grace so we can confidently repeat the apostle s creed and welcome a new little life into the family of god but i don t think i could have preached on that text on the morning after those deaths congratulations to blair for the sermon and for not allowing the deaths of saturday to overshadow the sunday joy of baptism posted in phpc 1 reply unexpected but fun posted on june 25 2011 by abbiewatters reply on the spur of the moment big al suggested i call my brother and his wife this morning and invite them to meet us for lunch we went to el fenix in louisville and had an enjoyable couple of hours catching up with each other this is one of the things i may miss in tacoma but i think i ll get over it still no word from the realtor sigh posted in family moving leave a reply okay all right i give up posted on june 23 2011 by abbiewatters reply i ve been doing a fair amount of writing in the presbyterian women interest group on facebook but i ve neglected you gentle readers the fact of the matter is i really don t have anything to write about i ve put off posting in hopes that i would have news about the house but so far nothing the realtor insists that both potential buyers are still interested so we wait sigh it s hot as a fire cracker in dallas we had a cool front the last two days that meant the highs were in the low 90s instead of the upper 90s and the lows were in the mid 70s instead of the low 80s sigh posted in moving leave a reply hope springs eternal posted on june 20 2011 by abbiewatters 1 just heard from the realtor she says she talked to one interested buyer who will be giving her a bid in the next couple of days his realtor is out of town but as soon as she gets back the other people who have been here at least two and maybe three times and are trying to decide whether to make an offer on mine or one other is still trying to decide maybe the first buyer will light a fire under the second set i m asking for prayers for the process but i will settle for a witch doctor s dance or sacrificing a goat 7 days in a row of 100 degree weather in june is just too much i ve had st joseph buried in the front yard for the last year and he hasn t done any good if anyone has any further suggestions i m open please buy my house posted in moving 1 reply papa posted on june 19 2011 by abbiewatters 4 this is a re post from last year s father s day post this is the eulogy i gave at my father s funeral he died in may 2008 at the ripe old age of 96 papa s obituary was correct and factual and in that way it matched him he was an engineer and he was nothing if not correct and factual for those of you who are touchy feely personalities you probably thought it was terribly dry and you don t really have a feeling for the man whose life i honor today but correct and factual actually embodies him better than many of the other things i can say about him that s not to say he was uncaring or cold unless you think the rock your life is built on is uncaring or cold to me he was strong solid dependable deep supporting and faithful qualities i d opt for any time over sweet sentimental emotional sensitive and demonstrative i remember in the movie love story the main character was estranged from his father and said my father never wrote letters to me he sent memos when we heard that my sisters and i looked at each other and said so papa used to always send us memos in school to abbie from papa re funds do you need any how are your grades love papa when ray was just 2 months old i became gravely ill al and i were still in college al was about to graduate we had no money we didn t know what to do so al put ray and me on an airplane and shipped us back home i ended up in the hospital for three weeks mama was working at a new job so during that time papa took vacation from work and stayed home to take care of the new baby i don t know many grandfathers who thought their baby days were over who would have done the same but there was never any question about it with papa he just did what needed to be done papa loved to fish and although he was a loyal churchman we occasionally could convince him to take us fishing on sunday mornings particularly if he had caught a line full on saturday in arkansas during the summer the only time the fish will bite is early in the morning right during church i remember my sister and i convinced him to take us on a float on little river one sunday morning from cerra gordo oklahoma to little river country club someone would drive us up river where we would put in about dawn and then we would float back down to the club as i said this was a sunday morning and papa s conscience must have gotten the better of him because we did the middle three miles singing love lifted me shall we gather at the river and all the other good old revival songs at the top of our lungs we sang the verses and papa provided the oompa pas as an engineer he always loved to stick his head under the hood of any car around that s papa with two son in laws two grandsons and his only son mama was diagnosed with alzheimer s in 1993 papa took over running the house as mama became less and less able to keep up with things but he didn t do it like a woman would he did it like an engineer with schedules and flow charts and checklists and he never complained he didn t take up cooking he took up shopping for microwavable dinners he let mama keep doing the wash because it was one of the things she could still manage until the day she emptied the trash into the clothes washer and started it running papa was taking a nap in his recliner in front of a baseball game when he heard a terrible rattling and clanging coming from the laundry room empty bottles and cans were agitating in the washer but he didn t fuss he just cleaned out the machine and put a lock on the sliding door he continued to care for her at home until the sibs and i finally convinced him that it wasn t doing either one of them any good he was a great tease and kidder it is one of the things that never left him even at the end of his life clara one of nurses in the health care unit said a few days before he died he was semi conscious and she had just finished taking his blood pressure she leaned over him to straighten the linens on the other side of the bed and suddenly he popped his eyes open and said boo then he just grinned while we lived in new jersey mama and papa became friends with one of the preachers at the church and his wife orville and margaret austin remained friends for 30 years even though they moved away in 1963 they really enjoyed playing bridge men against the women because the women claimed the men didn t really know what they were doing i think about 7 o clock last monday evening orville and margaret and mama were gathered in heaven to meet him with the cards already dealt sit down what took you so long we ve been waiting for you for 10 years he was my foundation my rock my underpinning my support he was my father and although we had him many years longer than the biblical three score years and ten it was still too short a time someone once said you are old when there s nobody left to whom you are a little girl i miss him this was also published in the well written woman in their tribute to fathers posted in family well written woman 4 replies big al posted on june 18 2011 by abbiewatters 1 he s not my father but he s the father of my children so in honor of father s day here s big al posted in family 1 reply mulling posted on june 17 2011 by abbiewatters 1 on our presbyterian women interest group on facebook we have been having several lively discussions one minister member soon to be teaching elder said this i m convinced that one of the bad habits church adopted from modernity is the professionalization of ministry to the extent we ve professionalized mission ministry we ve reduced members own sense of their vocation may we recognize and nurture the spiritual gifts of our sisters and brothers for the sake of g d and our communities and i answered after being in a small church for several years where the laity was expected to do whatever needed to be done i m now in a very large church 2800 members with 6 ordained staff and another 7 or 8 program staff not counting the secretarial and maintenance staff i am amazed at how little the laity does we re great followers but there are few lay leaders i m not sure what the answer is i wish i knew and then this morning in a totally different context another minister of word and sacrament posted this series of tweets on twitter as always driving through this church community i can see and feel potential for what this church could do and i m tempted to pour myself into that work then i remember it isn t the pastors wok to do the community has to want it it is a strange church to serve in many ways yeah i tell you so easy to dream dreams and vision visions impossible to find session members can t do w out the ppl in my experience even though the staff may feel overworked leading bible studies and running committee meetings they are reluctant to give up that control all the councils committees have a minister member assigned who is expected to attend bible studies are poorly attended unless a minister is leading it is this because the church members don t think anyone can lead a bible study unless s he has been ordained or is it because the staff is afraid of potential heresy if the laity leads the study i want to scream let me help i want to do so much i have gifts too posted in pc usa phpc 1 reply post navigation older posts abbie watters search june 2011 s m t w t f s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 may jul 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