Monday, Aug. 5 is the 26th Annual Lutheran Night at the Twins baseball game. Central Freeborn Lutheran Church has been involved in taking a bus every year. This year the bus was full as of Monday, June 3, 63 days before the game. Wow!
Central Freeborn Ladies Guest Night was June 12 at the church. My CEO told me I would be the greeter at the door. Like most hubbies, when the CEO speaks, you obey, and obey I did.
In reading about the Governor’s Fishing Opener in Albert Lea this May, the person quoted was Levi Griggs. In reading about geocaching in the September 2019 issue of Explore Minnesota, Levi Griggs was pictured at Whitewater State Park. His picture is now on file with the Minnesota DNR. Who is Levi Griggs? He is an elementary student at Halvorson School in Albert Lea, plus a great acolyte at Central Freeborn Lutheran Church, rural Albert Lea.
I was the reader at the Father’s Day service at Central Freeborn Lutheran. The following is what I read from Proverbs 8: 1-4 and 22-31 (It seemed rather odd the reading was about woman’s wisdom on Father’s Day):
Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; beside the gates in front of town, at the entrance of the portals she cries out: To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to all that live.
The Lord created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts was long ago. Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth when he had not yet made earth and fields or the world’s first bits of soil, when he established the heavens. I was there when he drew a circle of the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside him, like a master worker; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the human race.
Readers, think about the message that came from Proverbs. Do you suppose the source is the oft spoken of, “She Who Must Be Obeyed,” by the well known humorist Al Batt?
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Bob is a retired AAL (Aid Association for Lutherans) agent, currently working on his master’s degree in Volunteering. His wife, Genie, is a retired RN, currently working on her doctor’s degree in Volunteering. They have two children, Deb in North Carolina, and Dan in Vermont. Bob says if you enjoy his column, let him know. If you don’t enjoy it, keep on reading, it can get worse. Words of wisdom: There is always room for God.