Sunday

Sunday DW and I went to the late service, which is the unusual 11:30 AM at our church. That seems really late. I miss the first half of the Texans game. What are you going to do? It turns out I missed the good part of the game and mostly listened to the bad part.

With all the rain the service was very small.

The good part of all this is that I got in a long morning walk, from 7 to 9. I explored some new area east of midtown. I found a few treasures. I got rained on but considering how much we need it that was no problem. I saw the dark clouds but it has been threatening the last few days with little actual rain.

I put my magazine and phone in plastic, they were safe. I also was able to protect my little earphone radio and still listen to it.

The rain was warm and there was no lightning. I was more than glad that we were getting some soaking rain. It was a gully washer, coming off and on hard for a while then soft again. Some curbs were filled up. In other places the water was quickly flowing into storm drains. The dustiness was finally getting washed away.

On Sunday mornings the normally music stations on the FM dial often program more religious hours. Some do public interest programs. I scanned the dial looking for what was available. My little radio is fickle about what stations it will pick up on FM. A couple of weeks ago I heard the tail end of Al Sharpton. It would probably raise my BP but I would like to hear that again. I did not find Sharpton.

But I heard a social affairs program about bone diseases. After that came a half hour sermon by Joel Osteen. Osteen was pretty good. He leaves out part of the gospel. But this was a pretty good sermon encouraging people that God's "no" means he has something better in store. That could almost be MP or one of my blogs. But he never mentioned suffering and his call to accepting Jesus did not mention repentance. This is an important omission. I enjoyed hearing some things I would not normally hear.

My shoe has still not dried out yet.