Blessings to you, loved one.  My prayer for you this week is that God will do a new thing in your life.  There are certainly new things happening at BBT, or at least different things.  This Sunday, you will get a break from me.  I am tied up with a major project at work and cannot risk being unavailable long enough to attend and preach a sermon, much less prepare one.

I have asked Dr. Steven Bidwell to be our guest speaker.  I met Steve several years back at a men’s Bible study that I still attend when I can on Thursday mornings.  I came to appreciate his love for the truth and for God’s word.  I also found out we had something else in common.  We both went through the same computer programmer training course designed to equip people with disabilities for work in that field.  This was no small thing.  That class was all day for 8 months with a 2 month internship to follow.  There’s one more thing we share.  We’d both like nothing better than to find a way to focus our undivided attention on on the life and calling that God has given to us.  I know you’ll make him feel right at home and appreciate what he has to say.

I’m doing what I can to make sure everything goes smoothly tomorrow, but have mercy on my last minute recruits.  I think Priscilla will still be out.  Linda got me to sit down and talk about my grandmama a little for the Sunday school.  It’s a testimony of how God can step in and change everything.  My dad or my aunt would have been a better fit, but I was available. 🙂

Anita was in the hospital this week where she learned that she has congestive heart failure.  She is supposed to have been released today and was in good spirits when Linda and I spoke to her yesterday.  Keep her in your prayers along with so many in our church family who are fighting their own battles.  I can’t say “see Sunday this week, but I can still say “Love y’all!”

Larry