A Clogging-full Weekend

An exhausting, but very enjoyable weekend! We had two clogging performances this weekend - one in PA and one much closer to home, at Lucketts. I can remember a clogging performance in Purcellville that was on a humid 90+°F day, no a stage without any shade or canopy. THAT was the hottest clogging performance I've ever done. This weekend tied for a very close second and third! Saturday's was in a town with solid asphalt around, but it was at 11:00, so it hadn't reached full temperature for the day. Sunday's was at 3:00 in a grassy area with a few trees around. (very few) I have to give the 2nd Hottest Clogging Performance Award to Sunday's performance, but only by a very skinny hair!

J thoroughly enjoyed both performances. Well, maybe not the performances, but the fairs where the performances were. Corn on the cob at the PA fair along with kettle corn! Big strawberry smoothies! Hand paintings! Moon bounces! Little alien fuzzball toys! Playgrounds! Yeah, a very good time!

I also came up with a new bedtime story for him that he seems to have adopted as his favorite - the police, the mouse, the mouse-trapper, and the robber. I told it 3 times this weekend! Most of my stories don't get repeat requests, so this one must have made an impact! Maybe I'll develop it into a series for him - every night gets a new episode in the adventures of the Police Station Mouse!

I can't remember (and I'm too lazy to look back through my posts) if I've mentioned this before, but our church is thinking of joining with another church over in Purcellville. They're a bit smaller than we are, don't have a pastor right now, but do have a nice building. We're a bit larger, have a great pastor, but don't have a permanent building. It sounds like a good possibility, but none of us have heard anything particular from the Lord on this, so we're spending a lot of time in prayer. We've done a couple meet-and-greets with their church, and there are a few questions each group has about what the other group expects and is like. Right now we're planning on having several joint services, some at their church and some at our location, and see how things progress.

Anyway, lots of prayer is needed for this as neither church body would fair well, or possibly even survive, if we joined and then had an acrimonious split. Any time two groups join up, there are always frictions, and if those frictions are not handled well or are about basic foundational issues, it is more likely than not the groups won't remain joined together. Like I said - lots of prayer.