Most of the students and teachers in Jared's new theater group attend the same church. I became interested when I found out they hadn't stopped meeting when their regular location was no longer available because of COVID, they didn't roll over and play dead, they started meeting in and outside of the barn on the property they hope to someday build their church. During Jared's two weeks of theater we hosted at our house a family from the church that lived over an hour away. All our children get along marvelously and in my discussion with the mom I quizzed her about her unique church that was willing to take a stand. Lance heard so much about the family he joked jealously calling them "the invisible friends"; as he and Chris had been away at baseball in Virginia the past three weeks. This weekend they were in West Virginia the worst drive yet. While they were up there Chris and I listened so some of the sermons online, which piqued my interest more. They were not suppose to come back from WV till Sunday afternoon, then everything started to change.
We pack all the food for Lance and Chris to eat on these trips for both health and financial reasons. Somehow this trip (maybe there wasn't enough ice for a trip of twice the length) one of the meals went bad and Lance got food poisoning. Big "Ugh" failure feeling for mom. He played Thursday* but got sick toward the end of his game Friday. As a result, they started to head home Saturday after trying to watch Titus' Tip Test** on Zoom and that failing too. Though Lance was feeling well enough to drive home he wasn't feeling well enough to catch in the incredible heat. The trip went fine till they hit the first toll booth in the mountains when the Beast just suddenly went dead. The Beast went dead five more times on the 7 hour nerve wrecking journey home. I had prayer warriors at work as I kept waiting for them to be within towing and recovery distance. With great praise and thanks we welcomed them home. Chris declared no one is to drive the Beast anymore (It's currently at our mechanic who will determine if it can be fixed or needed to be traded in, more UGH).
The kids and I wanted to go to the church on Sunday but figured after an arrival like that people would sleep through the services. In fact, before bed we all agreed to throw a Gideon Fleece out that if we were all up we'd go but otherwise people needed to sleep and we'd try another day.
At 8:07am Sunday morning, North Carolina recorded its second most powerful earthquake on record, needless to say the house was awake. Poor Lance thought he was having a vertigo attack and was thrilled to find out it was just an earthquake. We acknowledged the nudge and agreed that God waking us in such a dramatic manner meant we better get dressed and head to church.
The people and the sermon did not disappoint. We had our "invisible friends" over after church for Chris, Lance and Holly to get to know them as well. It was a wonderful time had by all, one we pray to repeat many times in the time to come.
*Back home, I walked into the school room to find Lance's 10 gallon tank leaking water like a waterfall from the corner. We gave Lance a call what to do with the fish and Titus took charge siphoning the remaining water out the window, as Amber toweled up the floor and Jared and I transferred the plants. It was a team effort but just more chaos for the weekend.
**Titus continues to excel at TaeKwonDo. He is currently a Bodan Belt and has to obtain four "tips" to be allowed to test for his Black Belt. Each tip involves proving mastery of previous skills, written tests and other requirements. Parents could not watch inside (thanks COVID) so I sat in the car with a friend and tried to watch the live Zoom feed on my phone in the incredibly hot car. We thought it would only be 20-30 min like other belt tests, we were wrong, the test lasted 1 hour and 45 minutes! He looked so professional breaking a stack of boards with his fist at a kneel. At the end of the day he passed and was awarded "Best Sparring", his Master is really excited about him joining the Sparing Team when it starts again.
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