What is a chore for you is a celebration for me. For the first time in two years, I'm able to rake leaves! Yesterday, after our kids left following their Thanksgiving visit, Patty and I got out there with the blower and the rake and cleaned off the front yard.

A year ago, of course, it was much different. Patty still talks about how she'd come home at night after spending the day with me in the hospital, only to discover that the yard was raked and the leaves carted away! What a gift from various members of the congregation!