An Explanation
Technical concerns necessitate
posting a bit early this week.
What follows is actually
the posting for
Wednesday
November 29, 2023.
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Dear All of Us,
Welcome to our family,
to our joy and table!
What a weekend!
Thanksgiving
with all the trimmings,
with all the family,
with friends of our daughters.
Crowded Delicious Delightful
Saturday it was together some more -
just perfect sauteed pork chops,
tangy sweet apple sauce,
creamy crusted scalloped potatoes,
tender firm haricot verts,
baby greens, apple slices, and walnuts
all dressed up together in an engaging
mustard herb vinaigrette.
These delights were caped off
with a to die for orange zest cake.
Yes, my wife is culinary wonder.
Then Sunday after church
it was off to Chang Chang
for wonderous Dim Sum:
Kungpao Vegetables
Walnut Prawns
Bubble Pancake
Pan-Fried Pork Dumpling
and deliciously much more
What a feast!
Yes, my son-in-law is so
thoughtful and generous.
Great company and time.
All these treats and joy
as our family celebrated
our daughter Karissa's birthday.
And Ollie, now two and a half,
loved every morsal and moment of it
especially getting to help Mommy
blow out the candles.
So how about this?
Some Same Day Serendipity.
While revisiting my journals
this weekend in prayerful Soul See,
look what presented:
July 7, 1994
Wild Duns, SC
Karissa - the best thing
I've ever done is
marry her Mom and
be her father.
Wonderful child!
I really mean it.
If I dropped dead today,
the best part of my life
has been to give her life
- my life -
the life that God
has given her through me.
So, I'm starting to get clear here
(inside me about me).
I'm a child myself - a child of God.
That's all the security I need -
that's all the security there is!
I'm really quite ok.
I'm a child who is part of
God's play - an
eternal ( forever),
cosmic ( boundless ),
merriment.
God delights in me
(baby, go back over that line
for the rest of your life
on this earth!!!).
Sure, the other kids and I
are banged up (sin),
but the merriment
of the play
heals us.
That's because God is
merriment (love).
All of us kids are here
to play together,
to share,
to whopp it up!
All I want to do anymore is play!
All I want to do as a pastor
is be part of God's play
and do what's given me -
help everybody
get into the game!
That means get together,
get close, get busy,
get creative,
get helpful & healing &
happy & hilarious!
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That was me almost
thirty years ago.
It helped me then,
it helps me now.
I hope it does that
for us all.
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MERRIMENT
Love to all,
John Frank
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