West Cocoa Chat

Well it was “thumbs up” for Steve-o this morning at the Doctor’s Office. His thumb has healed nicely and he’s been cleared to begin moving it. He was also cleared to go on our “Wilderness Trek” in Colorado in July. This particular “clearing” was a relief on many levels not the least of which was the “having already paid for the Trek and airfare” level. We are looking forward to some time with our youth group in the backcountry of Colorado.

I spent some of my summer vacations in the backcountry of Colorado during my junior and senior years in College. My last visit was in 1983 when Barb and I spent a couple of weeks backcountry hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park. I had always dreamed of taking my son to Colorado for the same experience and now it seems like it will come to fruition.

We celebrated Steven’s “thumbs up” with breakfast at a local “breakfast only” restaurant. We’re supposed to leave this coming Sunday for New Orleans with our youth group. We’re going to the (www.carrolltonavenuechurch.org) Carrollton Ave. Church of Christ which was right in the middle of the flood zone during Hurricane Katrina. According to Chad, our youth minister, the building just got running water a few weeks ago.

Funny thing at breakfast, Steven, Barb, and I were having a discussion about him going on the trip. He was hedging just a little when all of a sudden someone’s cell phone began to ring. Guess what the ringtone was – “When the Saints Come Marching In.” Steven smiled and said, “I guess I’m going.”

Can God work through a ringtone? Better yet, as Dave Stone of Southeast Christian Church said a couple of years ago during a lecture at the Pepperdine Bible Lectures, “I thought all you Church of Christ people would have your phones set to vibrate.”

I’ll leave on that (pun intended) note.

// posted by cwinwc @ 8:00 AM