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Carol’s morning devotional encouraged just to “keep doing what you’re doing,” planting seeds of faith with whomever we interact, be they team members or otherwise…

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Enjoy the video summary for today’s work..

Editor’s Note: Lorin came up with the title for this entry, and was quiet amused with herself 🙂

Col. 3:23 Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men. I shared that verse in Mon. night’s devotional. So why was I lying down on the job today? Well, actually, I was lying under the house trying to nail hangers to the bottom of stairs. I felt like we were trolls hiding under the house. Carol suggested the Wicked Witch of the West. There we were lying under the house with our feet sticking out. There may be a picture somewhere?.?..

What a joy to be here serving in Biloxi! We had another wonderful day of beautiful weather. My group started with staining boards again, then graduated to nailing hangers. We actually got to use a real hammer and nails. Last year I only hammered in 3 nails and then went with a nail gun to avoid hammer pits in the siding. I was actually sad when we ran out of hangers to nail. Tomorrow we may get to nail the boards we stained onto the stairs that wrap around the front of the house.

Lorin, happy to be hammering

We spent the last part of the day figuring out how to layout the sub-flooring to prep for the bathroom tiles. This bathroom is going to have the laundry room right next to the tub. I guess you could toss you dirty laundry in then have a nice long soak in the tub then pull out your warm clothes from the dryer and get dressed. How convenient!

It’s been such a fun and busy time. God has been good . A.W. Tozer says: O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I’m looking forward to tomorrow and truly wish you could be here to experience all the wonderful moments.

Lucky us. We were treated to Aunt Jenny’s Catfish Restaurant for all you care to eat fried catfish, shrimp, and chicken. Compliments of Habitat! We also had fried pickles, fried green tomatoes, hush puppies, and fries. We did have non-fried food: the sweet potatoes were awesome, and there was coleslaw, biscuits, and banana pudding too. Southern hospitality, sweet tea, and non-sweet tea-what we think of as regular tea.

Devotional
After a morning devotional by Gary H, we’re on our way. He taught about how running a mile under 4 minutes mile was once considered an impossible feat, but since it has been broken, has been passed at least 18 times. His encouragement was that somethings that once were extraordinary slightly more commonplace and we take them for granted. Access to the Creator of the universe through prayer, is something that we should appreciate more.

Prayer
Speaking of prayer… there was a group of four women visiting from Pennsylvania, who are making their way where they feel that God calls them, praying as they go. Today was the day they were led to the same place, and we were mutually encouraged, in fact a few of us received prayer from them.

Ken, our host, talked about how important he finds for all of us to pray, where people came alongside of him at various times in their life for prayer and support. How often people, including himself, overlook the importance of frequent “common” day-to-day prayer.

Steve’s Stairs
As we drive out to the site, Steve’s discussing the best way to drop 1/8″ from each of the “stringers” (the zig-zag patterns that we rest the stairs on). Saw? Router? As realization falls over Steve, there’s a chance he and Millie might have to re-do their work from yesterday… We delight that Millie will have another opportunity to experience patience and grace working with Steve.

*update* on arrival at the site, we find out that Brad was kidding steve about being 1/8″ off…
Steve calls Brad a “turd.” Millie lost sleep last night over having to redo them… 🙂

Dinner
Tonight, we’ve been invited to dinner from the affiliate. They said that we’ve been a loyal group, returning year after year, and they want to thank us. Plus it’s a nice restaurant! We look forward to meeting the CEO of the affiliate and some of their staff. We’re going to eat a little bit lighter at lunch so we can partake in this aspect of Southern Hospitality…

Okay, on our way to the site. We moved Roy from this car so we could wait for Millie and Steve could receive prayer. When he leaves, he asks, “you going to miss me?” I reply, “of course.” “Aw nuts, see yaaaa!” he laughs as he exits….So today, we run the music a little louder in the back…:)

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