Weekend - COTNI

It was a fairly full weekend. Aside from taking care of "normal" things, I did have a chance to help out at the food packaging event for the Children of the Nations organization.   We were able to put together 40,000 packages of food, each one able to make 6 meals.  It is good to be able to participate in helping others in need.

On Sunday, an interesting story was told about a discussion that went on in an editorial column.  It was initiated by a person who said he did not see the usefulness of going to church because of all the thousands of sermons he has heard, he does not remember a single one.  However, the discussions all stopped when one person wrote that of all the thousands of meals that his wife cooked for him in all their years of marriage, he does not remember the full menu of a single one.   However, he knows that those meals nourished him, and if he didn't have them he would not be alive.   In the same way, going to church provides spiritual nourishment where we are fed from the Word.

After church, a friend and I went to Pho Bolsa on Brookhurst for our annual Birthday lunch celebration.  The gifts we exchanged showed that we were thinking similarly - she gave me a beautiful cut-out of a basket of flowers that she got from her trip to Solvang; and I gave her Olive Oil soap and towel I got from my trip to Greece.