Travel Day - Belton

Travel day
Yesterday was a travel day. Sorry about no blog. I think the lack of vegetables and fruit in my body disrupted my state. Why? Is that too weak an excuse? That and no exercise. For whatever reason I did not get walking in until Sunday morning. I needed it.

I'm getting scared maybe. That's the wrong word. But I am getting scared of walking. Long walking anyway. I can convince myself to do a one mile walk. I have often done one mile morning and evening. Sunday I did that. This morning, Monday, I did it again. Finally. I talked myself out of gym but walked one mile. God blessed me. I found several unsealed drinks and a one dollar bill. Wow.

SJ needs wood for our camping trip. As I walk I find great caches of wood put out for big pickup. There was one great cache of think hardwood. It would make great bonfire wood. But where was it now? I can't quit remember. It's not far though.

Belton Church

We visited DD3's church Sunday morning. They have a setup like my church VCH. The services are 9:30 and 11:00. The early service has a time limit so the sermon might end up being a little shorter than the later service. But their 9:30 seems to have more families than we do. They did baby dedications and there were about 10 children dedicated.

The pastor is young, dressed in old blue jeans and a t-shirt. They are going through Nehemiah and have done four weeks. Today he covered Nehemiah 3. That is the chapter where Nehemiah lists all the people who were in charge of various parts of the wall rebuilding. He laughed at doing that. We laughed too. He then proceeded to read the chapter before disclaiming his ability to read all the strange names. He actually did well with it.

He managed to make some good comments based on this chapter. This underscores Nehemiah's abilities as a leader and delegater. I mentioned this later to JF and he said the same things. Yes Nehemiah lists all the people responsible for various areas. By doing this he lets everyone know where the buck stops. Now Nehemiah does not get all the credit. This is good leadership. It is good to see the high priest is even getting in the act. Nehemiah also makes clear that certain nobles are refusing to work. There must be a story there. But quite a few leaders are working on areas near their section of responsibility. Nehemiah is quick to give them credit.

I like to think I remember where all the gates were and which section of the wall, north, south, east, or west each of these areas is in. But I don't I got lost. I am pretty sure the Fish Gate is in the north wall or the northeast corner, near the northern side of the Temple. I think that is the gate we entered in on my last trip to Jerusalem in January this year. The Dung Gate would be in the south wall. Anyway some of the areas I think I know. But then at the end of his reading the areas I got lost. But it was interesting to try to picture where the parts of the wall were in relation to the whole city wall.