Well, celebration of the 4th of July has come and gone.  The weekend is almost over.  It occurred to me this morning that next 4th of July, Lord willing, will be on Sunday.  That event at the creek will be an interruption to evening worship at church if we let it do that to us.  I won’t bother with that until next year.

Our celebration was almost rained out.  We ate lunch at my parents home with the house full of family.  I was one who would have been willing to be at the creek with slight, slow rain fall, and not a soaking rain.  We could have put a cover over the food; but that is not what was done.

About an hour after we ate everyone headed to the creek.  Swimmin’, playin’ games, some wiffell ball, crochet, and such as that was a goin’ on with a lot of fire works shootin’ and a lot of smoke from those fireworks.  The older adults were mostly sittin’ around in camp chairs, talkin’ and visitin’ and tellin’ stories.  There was some talk on preachin’ since about four or five of us are preachers.

It was a blessin’ to me to have the preacher there, who was my pastor when I surrendered to preach when I was just 19 years old.  It has been almost 35 years ago.  God is faithful.

It was a good day to be with family and friends.  It was a good day to celebrate the freedom of our nation.  God bless America, and bless her again.  If you would like you might want to check the post on Fire and Hammer for the fourth of July.

-Tim A. Blankenship