My Poor Dog

My poor dog! The storm came through this afternoon and I thought she was going to shake herself apart. She's never been particularly thrilled with thunderstorms, but after Rita, it's even harder on her. The power outage was what did her in. Of course, she had to stick her nose and paws out the door, hear the thunder, and then zip back into the house. Now she's flaked out on the floor, recovering from the storm. *smile*

My original gameplan for the day was to create the script for the cantata. I was going to do some reading last night, then put it together today. WRONG! The weather flip-flops did a major number on my sinuses and I ended up sleeping most of last night and today away. At least I feel better now. The medicine helped too.

I absolute MUST complete the script before Friday, though, so I can give copies to my readers. This do-it-yourself cantata idea was a good one at the time, but now............ *sigh* We are at least introducing the congregation to some 'new' Christmas music which they probably haven't heard before, and it's mostly music that the choir can pick up fairly easily. To make this tie together as a cantata, I'm going to tie the pieces to scriptures associated with the Christmas story and their history or the intent of their composers, at any rate, something about the particular songs. I'll probably do this tomorrow. The brain's not quite there yet.

Tomorrow afternoon I'll be at the 2 meetings related to the Southeast Texas Interfaith Disaster Recovery Organization. I hope that we're able to begin to actually accomplish something. There's something important to me about getting an ecumenical ministry up and running in the area. This could be a step toward breaking down barriers in the community. We are all in this disaster recovery process together, even if our approaches may be different. There are so many people who need assistance and too few resources to help. We've got quite a task ahead of us, identifying those who don't have resources, connecting them with volunteers and resources, and helping the community as a whole to become what is possible for the future.

Well, I'm going to sign-off and hope tomorrow goes more like I have planned than today did. *chuckle* Probably not, but one can hope!