Week Three Update!

Met with the nursing home staff yesterday and the social is all set for March 15th. Now all I need is to find out more about the era and get some volunteers to give me suggestions for the music and the decorations. Wooo Wooo God is good!

Still have to get more donations for the auction - I think I have seven. That actually is a piece of cake I just have to find the time to make the phone calls. I also have to print up some certificates.

Additionally, at the nursing home - I found out one resident does not attend the church service we do because "we" (I should say just "I" because I know I didn't) don't do a formal reading. In the Catholic mass the priest reads three selections from the bible. I told them to let her know I would incorporate that into my turn on the fifth Sunday of the month. I also let them know if someone there without family had a need to let me know - there are people there who have no one to see them, no family, etc that might need socks or something. Trust me in the big scheme of things, buying a pack of socks never hurt anyone.

Resources
Educating yourself about the needs of the world can be very painful, but necessary as it serves as great motivation to continue pressing on no matter what. I recently watched Pandemic: Facing Aids and I have to tell you that I was pretty shocked and horrified by what I saw. Uganda while very impacted is starting to get a handle on how to deal with this - Thailand - the number one cause of death is AIDS due to the sex industry and in Russia most people have NO idea how you get AIDS and their infection rate is projected to increase 1500%. Very enlightening movie, though hard to watch.

I am also currently reading Max Lucado's "It's not about me" I have to say I was a little concerned when I read: We'd see our suffering differently. "My pain proves God's absence" would be replaced with, "My pain expands God's purpose." But in that special gifted way he has - he makes it seem a glorious thing rather then a painful thing. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is in a bit of a slump.