Go About Your Business Kindly

This is the first Sunday after Advent for most of the Christian world.  In today's reading from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer of The Protestant Episcopal Church I discovered why Advent was so important for Mom.  The weekend before Mom died, an acquaintance of ours, the Roman Catholic bishop of Tulsa, Bishop Slattery,  visited her.  She told us all gathered the story of being 7 years old and outside of her church. A little boy ran by and she asked him what he was doing. He said he was doing his father's business.  The Sunday school lesson that day (which would have been 10 January 1943) was from St. Luke ii. 41-52., and that lesson in traditional Anglican worship is read on the first Sunday after Advent.   It was on that day in church school class that Mom said she realized that she was a Christian.  From her I learned how to always try to be a better Christian. I am still learning from Mom. I am still learning.  

Today I took a zero.
Slept until 0900 and went to church.
Enjoyed lunch with my friend, Bishop Poteet.
Then I went to the OSU-Tulsa library, studied, and also visited with Deborah and Jacob who work there. They are awesome, as are Beth, Candice, Lynn, J.P., Tom, R.J.: the whole staff there.
My thanks goes out to them all.  They are trail angels and do not even know what that means.

Life moves on and so am I.
Go about your business kindly.

Peace. It's all good. Hans