I am off today to meet Maryanne halfway between her house and mine, to pick up Emma and Will. I will bring them back here until Saturday, then meet the Helms in Canton in order to see the painting Anna has exhibited there at the county office...Andrew will come, too. From there, we will go to Maryanne's overnight so can have Easter Sunday together. Neil and Melissa will be there with their babies, as well...Grace and Justin with the Fryes...I am looking forward to all this, of course, but will be missing my remote family! How I wish we could all be together!

I don't know whether or not I told most of you that there was a policeman shot in our parking Lot at Hopeline recently...He was investigating a robbery at a pawnshop close by...The escapee criminal, shooting at the police, had been shot and hit by a police car while trying to run away, but got one last shot into the poor fellow's face when he came over to verify his condition...The policeman, a Christian, was trying to use only a tazer (sp.?) at that point.

I was up in the middle of the night doing things I really should do during the day - officey things...I am amazed that I still have next to no time to self-indulge....Not a bad thing, I suppose...

I close with a joke Wayne told recently....A navy ship picked up a fellow who had been shipwrecked,the lone inhabitant of a remote island. On his island they noticed three huts he had built. They asked him why three...He said, One is my home, one is the church I go to, and one is the church I recently left!....Ha ha! Still, I don't underestimate the difficulties in finding a stable, long-term church!