A Cancelled New Year’s Eve party!

It hardly seems fair sometimes, this life we lead.  As I’ve mentioned before, this last month has been so crazy, I almost can’t believe it.
It’s been 3 days since I’ve been able to find a place to go online, 3 days since I’ve eaten anything, and approximately 3,000 miles of driving.

When I last blogged, I mentioned how I was going to watch part of our service online when Carie and I arrived into Birmingham, Michigan (a suburb of Detroit) from Fremont, Ohio.  We were attending church at my grandfather’s church and had about 15 minutes of viewing time before I had to pack it up and head to service.

So I looked up all the Panera Breads on our route and found that there was one on our path.  This good news brightened my day.  And as I drove toward my destination, I noticed that there was a section ahead on Southfield Rd. in Southfield, Michigan without power.  “Poor peeps,” I thought to myself, knowing the horrendous nature of being without power in these wintrous days.

And then I realized that the Panera Bread I needed to use was also devoid of electricity.  We had to drive another 10 minutes out of our way to join Fellowship for about 8 minutes.

After service and a delightful lunch with my grandparents, Carie and I headed back to Indiana where my parents live.  Another 5 hour drive that turned into 6 because of an accident on the freeway.

On Monday, Carie and I developed two different kinds of sicknesses.  This was hard because we couldn’t really take care of each other, though we tried.  Almost the entire day was spent on the couch attempting to not get more sick than we had been.  “Please God.  Please?”

Tuesday marked our travel day home from Indiana to Massachusetts.  Carie’s health improved, and mine grew worse, keeping me from eating anything except seven french fries to test my future.  We arrived home at 11:00pm on Tuesday night, making our trip about 13.5 hours long.  We were overjoyed to be home in Massachusetts.

And this morning, I awoke cheerful and ready for the day, with only a bit of hunger panes, and …alone.

Carie awoke about 2 hours earlier and she could hardly talk or walk and had been hit hard with the flu bug that she’d been flirting with for the last several days.  Currently I’m trying to take good care of her, but I’m not a good cook, and my own hunger is pretty ravenous.

I say all this to share with you two things:

First, our open invitation New Years Eve Party we are having tonight has been cancelled.  Carie and I have hosted a party every year since 2002-2003, but the sickness this year, compounded by the snow, has devastated the party plans, and we just cannot have it this year.  My apologies to those who were attending, and I hope you have a safe and happy New years!

Second, despite all the stuff that has happened, and despite my focusing on all the negative stuff via my posts (really just because they make for better stories), I am quite confident that God is amazing, and that in 2009 in my life and in the life of the Holmans and Fellowship Church, He is going to use us to bring in His Kingdom!

“Thank You God!  Thank You!”

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