Well Sunday found us back to our old place where we gathered and worshipped for years at Element Church in Tampa. It certainly was great to visit, love up on and hug so many familiar and loving folks. The church has survived despite no permanent pastor as Bobby has filled that position from time to time. He does lead worship and their spirited "owners" are making a difference if not only for their kids. There were 5 baptism's after the service; 3 adults and 2 kids including grand son Gabriel. I would estimate they have a good 50-60 adults and at least 20 plus kids at this service.
I started the day much the usual with a 6'ish roll out. I had my usual cup of hot green tea laced with turmeric while I posted this ramble and then I spent a few quiet minutes with my Creator in thanksgiving and lifting up several by name. I haven't spoken with Paw Paw the last week but I guess no news is good news as we are dealing with GG now with her anxiety health related issues. She is becoming more child like it seems as we get closer to our leaving for the cabin this summer. Some of the family who don't live here are putting pressure on us with having her come live with us full time. We will cross that bridge when the time comes.
We headed out to Tampa around 9'ish for the worship service at Element and then after the baptism headed over to Bobby and Katie's home in Brandon for a family celebration honoring Gabe and his desire to make it know publicly through baptism that he is a Believer and has asked JESUS into his heart. We had all of Bobby's family there including GG, Eric, Amy's family and of course Nancy and I. Katie's folks and siblings were there as well and Bobby had smoked a couple of Boston Butts and along with cole slaw, chips and dips we had a good feed.
Bruce, Katie's dad introduced us to a new outside game called Slam Cam or something to that effect. There are two cans which are about a foot in diameter open at both ends with a slot opening in the middle and you and your team are 50 feet apart and then you take a frisbee and try to enter into the can. Your partner has the option to use any part of the body to assist the frisbee to enter the top or the slot in the can. It's a great game and not for the faint of heart as the frisbee can be a little painful when trying to corral it and redirect it to the can's opening. We played several games through out the afternoon and left somewhere around 6'ish for Seminole.
We met up with GG and Eric and they came to the house while I picked up a couple of pizzas for our supper. Afterwards we played 6 rounds of domino's with Eric winning in the last round. It was after 9 when they left for home. Today I will take Eric to the airport for his flight back to Michigan and then we will once again be chauffeurs for GG. It's been nice that Eric was here to help with driving her around and spending the nights with her and we are hoping she will spent more time in Michigan this summer with him and his family, LATER
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