Friday

I was at Tom and Jeannette's all day yesterday. I enjoyed it, as always, but was so tired - literally had to keep shaking myself awake as I read "Stewart Little' to the children - found I had drifted into momentary sleep while my mouth kept going! A new experience!...Dad and I are now sleeping every night on the hide-a-bed to get away from stuffiness of bedroom here, so got Dad to open out the bed and stumbled in about nine, or so...As usual, I awoke around three, so read a couple of chapters of the Rockefeller biography Tim sent me while huddled in the bathroom for a couple of hours - at the same time keeping an eye on the two roaches skittering about my feet....Then back to bed and dozed/slept until eight!...The biography is fascinating. Thanks, Tim. I absolutely love having these wonderful books to read... What an enigmatic man John D. was...In ways, cutthroat in business, in other ways not...Exemplary in personal life yet somewhat of a dirty old man as he got older, after his wife had died...His purpose in life was to make money - by means fair or sometimes foul (,difference not clearly spelled out in American law at that time) - in order to give it away...A very devout Baptist...An odd conglomeration of characteristics...Will we see him in Heaven?

Today I pulled myself out of bed, read the Bible, groomed minimally, and set out for Cartersville to visit with Maryanne after her doctor's appointment with Tom...Got great Christmas presents for P&M, T&A - already have things for R&S, J&G...Home again and internet plus Rockerfeller until we go to Tom and Jeannette's tonight for dinner. (They have a group of people meeting there who want more fellowship than their (geographically) distant churches can offer them.

Something to pray about: Dad phoned Chris White today about trying to find a job in Chattanooga and he gave him a contact in the McLellan Foundation. (Insurance people, originally)...Both he and Johan are friendly with them)...Dad will phone them on Monday. Please keep this in prayer. the chances of a fifty-none year old, without directly relevant experience, finding any kind of a job with dignity are slim, but God can do it, of course! WIll keep you posted!

Another tidbit: Justin has a cousin whose wife is very close to Grace. She has air miles she has given to Susanna so she can come and visit us in the next few weeks! Isn't that marvellous?