Friday, October 18, 2024

October 2024 Update

October greetings!  I mentioned last month that I discovered I had inguinal hernias.  I saw the surgeon, and he recommended I get them repaired.  So, I had a third surgery in just two years on October 2 to get that done.  Afterward, he said it was a good decision because the left side was a large double hernia and the right side was an even larger hernia.  I now have two new scars, but the recovery is going well thanks to a lot of ice packs, and, of course, to God’s grace to me.  Thank you to all who prayed!

 

We rejoiced this past month on September 22 with my future daughter-in-law, Brandi, as she publicly declared her faith in Jesus and was baptized.  You can go to her church’s YouTube channel at Sunday Morning Service 09/22/2024 and listen to her testimony (starting at about 39:30).

 

The final event to report on this month was my barbershop chorus’s participation in our district’s annual Contest on September 28.  We didn’t do really well, but we had fun, and I’m glad I got to be a part of it.  We sang an upbeat song called It’s a Brand New Day, and then the slower song Georgia On My Mind, which I’m sure a lot of you have heard before.  Ray Charles did a famous version of it.  Here’s the big question about Georgia that we debated in our chorus:  Was it written about the state of Georgia or a woman named Georgia?  If you look up that question online, you’ll find both answers coming from the author of the lyrics and the composer of the music, so who really knows.  We just know that it wasn’t written about the country of Georgia in Eastern Europe.

 

I guess that’s it for October, so we’ll talk again, Lord willing, in November.

 

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