Janice and I went for a walk nearby. "The past few days," she said, "I haven't had pictures taken of the people I've been with, because my cameraman's been gone." I was about to say, "really? That's too bad," when I realized she was talking about ME. I always took lots of pictures. But fever had kept me in bed the past few days.
It had been only Sun, Mon, Tues, Wed. Hmm. I looked up. Those foot-long things on the tree looked like green beans, pea pods--what were they? I guess God knew! As much as He knew what he was doing when keeping me bedridden during cousins' and friends' visits.
The wind picked up, the temperature dropped, and Jannie didn't want my fever coming back, so we decided to head back. On the way home, I looked through the fence and saw a bright lime green sprout pushing its way up through the rocky soil. A few seconds later it seemed a yellow-red bunch of hibiscus blooms whispered to me it wasn't just pushing through obstacles but being drawn by delicious, strong sunlight.
When we got home a few minutes later, we walked around back where there were steps to the building nextdoor, took a peek, saw it was empty and wondered if God might use it for ministry someday. Joycie came back after teaching her piano lesson, and we practiced for the special music we'll be doing for Sunday. I can't post pictures of us practicing. We were being pretty silly--I think we'd be able to give a better offering to the church if we recorded some of our practice sessions on TikTok and asked for donations!
P.S. (Sorry Janice; these old photos are the only ones I could find I took of you with Kazue or Toshie who came Mon and Tues, and you saw the ones of Masako and Chieko from '70. Kishimoto-san's pic with Joycie was posted Dec 3. I have one of you and her son Kei, but not of you and Kishimoto-san!)
