Whirlwind Weekend

6/30/2019

“Woke up this morning feelin’ fine, I woke up with “Heaven on my Mind,” and now I’m feelin’ mighty fine….” That’s the SIMH, an old Southern gospel song by lots of artists and quartets. Strange how the tunes, followed closely by the words will just come out into my consciousness even though it’s been years since I heard that song. This one didn’t stay long this morning, but came back later in the day. (mumble, mumble, mumble…)

It’s, of course, OK with me, but sometimes it seems mysterious, don’t ya think?

Saw many more friends on Friday at the Bible Camp. Heard four very good messages. One message by a Chicago preacher, the next from Chattanooga, then a missionary from Wisconsin and, finally the host pastor from here in Western Tennessee. A good mix of preaching the gospel of Christ and who sounded like what! They were assigned topics for today, all about the family, then the wives, the husbands, then the discipline. Well done, gentlemen, well done. Most modern day preachers would have disagreed with about half of what was taught, but it was all very definitely Scriptural!

On Saturday, I went to visit another North Tennessee city, Clarksville. What a beautiful city! The old downtown has been refurbished, most of it occupied and a lot of Saturday morning traffic. At the edge of downtown, a seriously large farmer’s market & arts/crafts market had wall to wall people! Those I talked with were truly enjoying their (hot) day at the market and just being out amongst them was enjoyable. The rest of the town seemed very much alive and prosperous. It will be a great town for a Blue Jug Alkaline Water and Health Market.

My drive home was tedious, but uneventful—that’s the best way to have a drive: no problems, just a couple of slowdowns. One thing I noticed: Nashville has gone the way of other big cities. Traffic is a huge problem. When multi-lane traffic snarls to a dead stop for several minutes without an accident or other extraneous thing happening, there is a big problem in the infrastructure, some big thing needs to get fixed. Usually, for the people who live there, they will face some form of new tax or toll to pay for it. But we live in a society which will step up and get ‘er done. I have seen it in every big city I’ve frequented: Houston, San Antonio, Baton Rouge, Mobile, Birmingham, Chattanooga, Louisville, Indianapolis, they all had to alleviate something of a snarl maker and they did. Nashville will be the next to have another major route-way overhaul.

Today, Barb and I went to Chattanooga and I taught bible class in both hours at Grace Bible Church. Bro. Atwood was still at the camp in Western Tennessee. We had a great fellowship with the folks who came. A few less because the regular preacher was not there, but a good group, anyway. 

Afterward, we went to one of our favorite small restaurants, this one atop Lookout Mountain, in the city of Lookout. The Cafe on the Corner is just great food. Every time we go we are satisfied in every way; service, food, atmosphere, it’s all good.

The rest of the day, I’ve lazed around, catching up on rest and looking forward to a good week ahead. Baseball on the “tellie” is managing to irritate me (the Cubs are getting beat) but it is a very restful afternoon. 

Hope you and yours have had a good weekend and your week ahead is worthy of your anticipation!

Thanks for reading, the Elder