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FIELD TRIP FUN

The kindergartners are going on a field trip this morning, and I am one of the chaperones. I’m packing earplugs, sunglasses and tranquilizers. Not really: it’s going to be a very good time.

It’s amazing what excites the kids, though. Their teacher told them they’re going to a farm, and they’re going to get to go on a hayrack ride, pet some pigs, shuck some corn, and do all kinds of other fantastic outdoors-y things you get to do when you live in Nebraska, the heart of farm country.

She also told them they’re going to go on a school bus. For most of them, it would be their first bus trip. She told them a bunch of other things about what to expect and how things were going to be so that no one would get too nervous.

Well, on the way home, I had to ask Maddy what she was most looking forward to. A ride on a tractor? The baby colts? Ducklings on the pond?

Nooooo. She hyperventilated in the back seat:

“I GET TO RIDE ON A BUS AND THERE WILL BE NO SEAT BELTS!!!” She pumped her fist skyward, as if that were the most exciting development since the Dawn of History.

Kindergartners . . . take a walk on the wild side!

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Prayer request: There’s a mother and a father with two young-adult sons. The older is an atheist, and the younger, Nick, has just been diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. At 21, he will have to quit his job and undergo six months of chemotherapy. The cure rate is high, but it’s a very tough diagnosis. Nick is not saved, and his mother seeks prayer for his salvation -- and that the older brother will not become even more bitter toward the God he professes to not believe in. Besides that, understandably, the mom is so scared she sobs when you ask her about it. Oh, Lord, grant this Godly mother a spiritual two-fer – healing for her son who is sick physically, and salvation for both of her sons through the miraculous spiritual healing that comes only through Jesus Christ. (John 3:3-7)