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MEET THE FORQUERS

Those who loved the movie “Meet the Parents” will appreciate my husband’s concern for our neighbors. Their daughter is getting married this weekend at our neighborhood pond a short block away. There will be lots of out-of-town guests from the groom’s family from California coming and going from the bride’s home across the street.

That’s why it was thoughtful of my husband to put off our major upgrade of our septic tank system ‘til next week. He remembered too well the pre-wedding scene from that movie where there was a lot more than rice on the ground and the scent in the air wasn’t just roses.

On the off chance that there’d be a catastrophe with the long-planned expansion of our 35-year-old system, he’s playing it safe and rescheduling the septic project ‘til the ink is dry on the marriage license, the wedding is safely over, and the new in-laws are gone.

Just to make it an even closer match with the movie, the last name of the groom’s parents is “Forquer.” (In the movie, it was “Focker.”)

To quote my most tactful friend, who delivers this line regularly with a bemused grin: I ain’t sayin’ a word.

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Prayer request: Wisdom and compassion for the family of Regan, age 5, who is struggling with pneumonia and may have only days to live. She was born with a rare genetic disease, Aicardi Syndrome, of which there are only 300 to 500 identified cases worldwide. The Nebraska girl has no corpus callosum between the two hemispheres of her brain and has suffered seizures, mental retardation and near-blindness. She can’t speak and can barely see or feed herself. The parents divorced, in large part because of the strain, and now the father and brother live in another town while Regan and her mother are going through this. Lord, we pray for Regan to go gently into Jesus’ arms, for strength and stamina for her mother in these last days, for both parents and the family to be at peace, and for Regan’s short life to be a blessing and a witness to countless others. (2 Samuel 22:28a)