Friday, July 30, 2010

THIRSTY?

This evening we had a community church service at the local county 4-H fairgrounds as part of the church's community outreach week.  It was an all-inclusive service, so all the kids were in with us for the entire time.  Part of the service was our community outreach pastor speaking with a woman who had had several projects done to her home over the course of the week.  The pastor asked her to tell her story, and she spoke for several minutes about how she'd married very young, had six children in five years, and her husband cheated on her for years before she divorced him.  Shen then explained that she'd "gone wild" after the divorce, and that she'd started drinking.  She said that it wasn't until she began raising her grandson that she really started turning her life around, and that included the choice to stop drinking.  In her words, "That was over 40 years ago, and I haven't had a drink since."

At that point, Kaitlyn turned to me and whispered, very seriously, "Her mouth must be really dry."