Month: January 2008

I went to my Women of Worship meeting today where I received some flyers I stuck in my bag to read later.

After our meeting I got in my van to go home and it did some funny thing it hadn’t done before. I took it as a reminder that I needed new back tires and to go get them.

Sitting in the waiting room at the tire place I noticed a young man across from me was reading the Bible. I asked him what he was reading and he said 1 Peter. We had just discussed some of that at my meeting.

I told him I was reading Exodus and some of the verses from the New Testament that tied in with the chapter from Exodus.

I thought I should look at my flyers and see if I should share something with him. One of them was a quote from Mother Theresa “Do It Anyway”. I had heard it before and of course thought it was great so I asked him if he wanted to read it. He read it slowly and said it was really good. He handed it back to me. I asked him if he wanted to keep it. You would have thought I

told him he just won a new Ipod. His eyes lit up and he had a big smile and said he would like to have it because it went right along with the lesson he was preparing to give at his church youth group meeting tonight.

That was a God thing.

Continue reading Do It Anyway

Yesterday was our very last Pinewood Derby due to the fact that Andrew will turn into a Boy Scout on February 9th. The Pinewood Derby is just for Cub Scouts.

Bob worked very hard chisiling out a sleak looking sports car from the block of wood that comes in the kit. He smoothed it out until it felt like butter. Bob weighed all the parts of the car to see how close it was to 5.0 oz. He needed to drill a hole in the back of the car and slip some weights in to make sure the car would weigh in at the mandatory 5.0 on the day of the race (paint had to be taken into consideration). He carefully painted the car with primer then 2 coats of a deep dark black paint. After the paint was dry the car was shiny black like a puddle of oil.

The car was ready for the black widow decals which were carefully positioned in just the right spots. Then a coat of poly-urethane was painted on, then another and another.

The last step was to add the wheels and graphite and the Black Widow was ready for race day.

Julie A. G. C. was kind enough to come to the big race and take some pictures.

Well the big news is that the Black Widow came in 3rd and Bob and Andrew were thrilled. They got a very nice trophy and that’s the end of that.

This is a true story.

Julie loves to take a walk everyday. She does this for exercise, physical and mental. If she could choose the day it would be sunny and on the warmer side (at least 75 degrees).

So on this particular January day in central Florida, it was close to 80 and sunny, and time for a walk. Julie had been busy cleaning but was happy to take a break because her darling dorter had come to join her.

The two set off and went to the right instead of the left. To the left was a paved road leading to paved sidewalks and pedestrian crossings etc. To the right was a “path” Julie claimed to have been cleared “recently”. Carol found a large stick to put out alligator eyes just incase.

To snakes and other creatures this path would look like a dream come true. There was just the right amount of brush, weeds, and water near by.

Just when the 2 got to the point of no return (the path was shoulder high) a fence appeared in a clearing not too far off. So the choice was to go back or to go forward and have to climb the fence. Julie said to the skeptical dorter, “aren’t you curious?” so on they went.

The younger dorter managed to climb up and over the fence. Julie was right behind and had her own style of fence climbing which worked for her.

After the girls landed on the other side of the fence they were amazed at the number of briars stuck to their clothes from head to foot. Looking around there was a choice to go left towards another fence or to go right towards water and another fence. So off to the right they went. After climbing the 2nd fence the two landed in someone’s backyard. It was quite beautiful.

Julie asked where they were and how they could have gotten to that point. Carol wasn’t much help in figuring out where they were. It was good to be back on a paved road.

After walking down the street and down another street the pair ended up at the neighborhood country club, so thoughts of being in danger had subsided (these thoughts were only in Carol’s mind).

After finally arriving back at Julie’s condominium Carol came to the conclusion that it is amazing we have had so many years with Julie Adventure Grant Cashel. She is our own example of how to live life to the fullest.