Arrived home around 2 am this morning after a four hour delay at the airport in Jacksonville, Florida.  This made for a really long day.  We got to the airport around 5 pm to turn the rental car in as we were due to fly out at 6 pm.  Then the delays starting coming in until it was after 10 pm before we departed for home.  What was really bad is everything and I mean everything closes in the airport at 6 pm, so no food, beverages or anything is available for sale and we had not ate before we got to the airport -- big mistake. 

We have spent the last week with Tropical Storm Fay -- she just wouldn't go away.  I thought we were going to have to buy a boat just to get out of Florida and I understand she made her 4th landfall early this morning in the panhandle.  But we did get out and visit St. Augustine on Wednesday before she got really ugly.  But the surf was already getting rough even then.  But we got to spend alot of time visiting with the kids and one of  Ruth's brothers and his family.  They made us feel really at home -- Gilda is a wonderful hostess.  We went ahead and celebrated Lydia's 2nd birthday while we were together as it is Sept. 1st.  She is so girly-girl, she is all the time asking for makeup.  I went and bought her some play makeup and she was a sight putting on her blush and lipstick -- it is just to much for a little girl her age to be this prissy.  We bought her a necklace and earrings for her birthday and she was showing everybody how pretty they were.

Well it is back to work tomorrow, I wil post some pictures later of our trip.

It is during suffering that we learn to pray our most authentic, heartfelt, honest-to-God prayers.  When we're in pain, we don't have the energy for superficial prayers.  God's plan for our lives involves all that happens to us -- including our mistakes, our sins and our hurts.  It includes illness, debt, disasters, divorce and even death of our loved ones.  God can bring good out of the worst evil.  He did at Calvary.