Sunday update

At Emmanuel this morning, between the two services, there was a very interesting presentation by a representative of an Agency who helps the children of incarcerated parents, and Oklahoma has the highest number of incarcerated mothers in the nation.   

 

Volunteers do a lot to reach out to these children, befriending and helping them, and it is to raise awareness of the needs of these children that presentations like this are given.  I have never encountered anything like this before.  I think in Britain it is generally assumed that the 'state' - social workers etc. - take care of them, but it does seem to me that willing volunteers probably help and accomplish more than a paid social worker.

 

I was intending to go to the 10.30 service afterwards, but one of my ankles was painful and I needed to go home and put a support on.

 

I then thought I might go to Larry's church this evening down by the lake, but when it was time to go the clouds were looking ominous - like they were last night before the rain started sheeting down, and I could never drive through that.    So I just went out to pick up what has become my Sunday evening supper of a medium rare steak from the Golden Corrall, a buffet and take-out.   Steaks in the supermarket are quite expensive, probably because they are so huge, whereas I can get one ready grilled that is the right size for me for about $4, or £2.67.    I do sometimes long for a lamb chop, but this is cattle country.

 

So mostly I have been watching television.   Since my usual Fox News channel devoted the entire evening to the legends of the Wild West and the truth behind them - Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickock, all that lot - I had to actually scroll through the guide on the remote to look for something else.

 

Does anyone remember The Waltons?   'night Jim Bob'  'night Elizabeth'  'night John Boy'  'night 'Jason, etc etc - all them.   I watched a two hour episode tonight and really caught up, they were all children when I last saw them.   But now John Boy is married and a hot shot tv anchor in New York (a clip showed him commentating on the Moon landing) but he was back on Walton's mountain with his very pregnant wife, visiting.  Elizabeth had been travelling round the world and had just come home.   Mary Ellen was a doctor, and at the end of the episode she delivered John Boy's twins who arrived a bit premature.  

 

Even the cat was watching.