We are having Vacation Bible School this week at our church. I have always loved to help and I love the nursery. For the past several years I have not been able to help but once because of surgeries I have had for several summers in a row. This year year I had planned to help but not teach. I ended up doing the nursery with the preacher's mom.
We had eight the first night, six the next, and seven last night. I found out that I am too old to be working with the little ones only because of picking them up and carrying them. I have enjoyed being with them. They are so sweet and loving.
I tried to teach because that is what I thought a preacher's mom would expect. Tuesday night she offered to teach the next night and I gave her the next two nights. She did not teach either. She played some music and tried to read a book but they were not interested in anything but playing. I have come to the conclusion that they are too little to teach but they can be touched by our love and care of them. We are setting the way for them to be ready to learn when they are older and can learn and understand. I pray that each of them feel the love that Shirley and I have shown them and mostly the love Jesus shows them everyday. They are God's special ones that he will use in the future to show the world about Jesus. I pray that in some small way they know in thier little hearts that God had some adults at VBS that loved them and cared for them and will pray that they grow up to love him and make him the center of their world.
Next year maybe God will allow me to help with the crafts or the kitchen. HA

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This has been a hard week for our family...My oldest daughter and family lost their house and everything inside from a fire. I praise God every time I think about it, which is often, that they were not at home and still asleep. I know how I felt seeing it and I can not fantom what they felt and are feeling. They are giving God the Glory that they were spared and that their puppies and cats were spared. It does not do for me to even think about what could have been. I am so glad I serve a living God that cares for his own.
I am so proud of Tamara and Jay for carrying on like they have and that they are trusting God to help them start over. Both of the girls have been so good through all of this and I am sure that at 14 and 10 it is a load to carry. They have been staying with us and it is a blessing to have them here. It has helped me to carry on and stay focused.
I want to thank so many that helped during the fire, of course all of the fire stations that responded and the firemen that did so much to save what they could, the vet down the road, the Humane Society that helped with the puppies, the dog food and supplies they brought, the help with the watering and seeing if there was anything else we needed for them. Tamara's two sisters that worked so hard to help in every way possible. Both of them made me so proud and thankful for them. They went through the blackened mess to see what they could find that might be saved. My grandson who is 10 that worked hard carrying things and doing whatever he was asked. Tamara's dad for being there for her. My husband that was there to support me and them. Just having him there was such a comfort to me. Just knowing that he was near. The people who came by to lend a hand and a comforting word. The show of love that they have been shown tells me that there are many good people in this world. It was a blessing to me to have Rev.Jimmy Cox there when I arrived. He was so supportive and was ready to do anything he could to help me, and then when they arrived home he was there for them. He left and came back later to see if they were ok. Tamara's family preacher was out of town so it was nice to have someone we knew there. My best friend and her husband were so great to come and just jump right in and do whatever was needed. He is a full time fireman for the city of Spartanburg and on his day off he was there doing every thing he could to help. For the two of them feeding us for two nights. Neighbors that they did not know they know now because they have come by and offered to do whatever they could. They have been invited to stay with several, given storage areas for when they need them, food and invited to come for a meal any time. The phone calls to them and to me have been such a comfort. My home church for sending food to help us with the girls while they are staying with us. I could never begin to name everybody that was such a help. God knows who they all are by name and he will bless them.
All we hear is the bad things that people do but they do not share all the good things people do. Wish they would do a Wonderful World News Show everyday instead of just bad news.
God bless everyone of them for their goodness. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart and I thank my Lord for his love, Mercy and Grace. I know that things will be rough for awhile but I know that they will be cradled in the Master's loving hands and they will survive and thrive.