CHANGES / MOVES

 

In our drives to doctor’s appointments as we “move our doctors to Arizona”  we see a forest of Sugauro cacti!  We have read that the main “trunk” of that plant takes 75 to 100 years to put out it’s first “nose or arm”  So we have been calling that the SECOND Generation.   THEN  we started looking for noses and arms on THOSE arms and discovered that like our human families the second generation starts to put out noses and arms.  So with one trunk you can see three generations.  That does not happen frequently in the cactus in this area.  But we are faithful in observing these amazing creations, and having seven great grandchildren ourselves, are especially aware of the phenomena of a THIRD GENERATION in the Saguaro forests we drive through.  We have NOT been south to the Sugauro National Monument down by Tucson.  Something for the “to do list” for next year!!

 

We are missing our grands and greats having been nearly three months down here in cactus land.  Still have Martha’s eyes and Tom’s skin cancer to clear up in the months of March and April.  All I wanted was a new prescription for glasses when I was told that I needed to get rid of the cataracts first.   I guess that “slow growing” cataracts can become FAST GROWING as they were still in the future as of last year in Sonora.  Oh well, I guess we are now IN THE FUTURE!  We are closer to care here 6 miles east of Wenden then we were 6 miles west of Salome the last two winters.   It is starting to warm up though.  We have had to turn on the A/C in the pickup the last couple of trips to Phoenix!!

 

Missing Easter at our Tuolumne Church and Palm Sunday at Morgan Chapel there on Wards Ferry Road will be disconcerting.  And the Mount Calvary Lutheran will be missing my organ trumpet duets with Clyde on Easter Sunday!!    We are so glad that we have found a welcoming, Spirit filled church here at HOPE AZ.  The carved sign on the way home from church is back in place after being redone thanks to some vandals.  “Fools names and fools faces seem to appear in public spaces!”  Sad -   The sign  says WELCOME to Hope on the east side, and You are beyond HOPE on the west side!!   It puts a smile on MOST FACES,  but evidently the vandals were not in that group.

 

So in case I miss wishing you a BLESSED EASTER I hope that you are blessed by worshiping with your church family wherever you are.  John 3:16 – 17  For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him will not perish but have ever lasting life.  For GOD sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved!

His resurrection is the proof of GOD’s awesome POWER,  be sure you know HIM and TRUST HIM with each of YOUR DAYS!!