I'm So Aggravated!

I spent two days writing what I thought was an insightful, masterpiece blog post...but it didn't save! It's gone! I hate when that happens!

Working on my next Sunday School lesson. Trying to get inspiration. What I do can't really be called a lesson. Every person in that room is probably more qualified than I to teach lessons of faith. Mine are more presentations of (I hope) interest to everyone...just explorations of little known things about the Bible. I have learned more in preparing the lessons than I could ever hope to impart to my classmates!

Grandma Judy and I are going to be Salvation Army Doughnut Girls on Veteran's Day! I volunteer for TSA and get notices on a regular basis for events in need of volunteers. This last request was specifically for Plainfield. TSA is having a Veteran's Day celebration dinner for vets at Duke Energy here in town. The Doughnut Girls were Americans sent to France to tend to the comfort of in-the-trench soldiers in World War I. (Um...that sounds bad. Please take it in the way it was intended!) They wanted to serve comfort foods to the guys who were digging in the rain and mud for weeks on end. Supplies were limited, so the gals came up with the idea of cooking doughnuts with the ingredients they could get. The soldiers were treated to fresh, warm doughnuts and coffee, in the name of Christ's love for them. Judy and I will don the costumes of the original gals and will serve coffee and doughnuts for dessert at the luncheon in town. Should be fun! I can count several times over my years of service with SATERN (the Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network) when complete strangers would approach me with tears in their eyes, remembering their service days, far from home and homesick, when TSA volunteers would be there to hand out fresh doughnuts and hot coffee, asking for nothing in return. If it meant so much to them so many years later, it means a lot to me, now.

Haven't felt particularly well today. I just keep on pluggin'.