I enjoyed another good trip back to northwest Arkansas over the weekend. Merilyn and Sarah are feeling better, but still recovering from their sinus infection and bronchitis. I didn't get to see Blake but Sarah tells me he is doing well. Adam is doing OK, too, enjoying the warmth that has returned to the College Station area in southeast Texas. Boy, the Oklahoma state troopers were out in force over the weekend! I did not keep an accurate count but I guess I saw 10-12 doing radar patrols. In one place around Sallisaw there were 5 within one mile. It was not a big concern to me. As I always told our kids while they were growing up, the police are our friends...if you don't do anything wrong, then you have no reason to be afraid of them. It does get your attention, though, when you see that many.
Merilyn was feeling well enough to come to the Thursday evening Bible study group. We enjoyed being with our Christian friends and opening the Scriptures together. A few of our regular folks were not able to come but we had one newcomer so that was nice. We just finished a study of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7 and now we are going through the Gospel of Luke which will lead us into the book of Acts. It is always a great blessing to get together every two weeks.
We had good attendance in our morning worship yesterday with several new visitors again. Several of the members were absent because a nasty intestinal virus is starting to go through the population. Merilyn tells me it is getting around in northwest Arkansas, too. Be sure to use the hand sanitizer!
It is just incredible to see the devastation that has occurred from the earthquake in Haiti this past week. Evidently so much of their infrastructure was damaged that the groups who want to help are having great difficulty getting relief supplies to the ones who need it. It is hard to imagine the huge loss of life and the destruction they have experienced. Be sure to remember them in prayer.
I hope your Monday morning is getting your work week off to a good start. Enjoy the blessings God gives you. Walk in the light and stay cleansed!

This is the message we have heard from Him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with Him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not live according to the truth; but if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin." (1 John 1:5-7)