Saturday, April 16, 2005

Steady Day

The house is full with 23 women up for a prayer retreat. They have practiced listening prayer, listening to each other and waiting in the quiet for the Spirit to speak.

I arrived in the kitchen at 6:30AM and it wasn’t long before women wandered down in search of the coffee they could smell or a cup of tea to wrap their hands round and let their body wake up.

Once the breakfast was cleaned up it was right into preparing lunch. Our friends Pat and Gerry had brought us a whole salmon. We were all under the impression it had been cleaned but when we thawed it yesterday we discovered that wasn’t so! That took a better part of the afternoon yesterday but today it was ready for stuffing with leaks and lemons, tied up and then Ron had it cooking on the barbeque for an hour. That salmon fed 33 people and there was enough left over for 2 more.

Mike was up working on paperwork but we sure appreciated when he stepped in, rolled up his sleeves and washed dishes. That is our Executive Director by the way! The President, Gwen, was setting tables, sweeping floors, and joining in the prayer time with the women. Grandma was disgusted that most of her sugar cookies were consumed last night but they are just too good. Rob was out working on the studio, Pat and Gerry and family dropped in and joined us for lunch, Dorothea was busy serving tables and Doug and Ron have been out chopping wood and burning the garbage.

And once lunch was cleaned up, it was right into supper preparation!

Now it is time to close the kitchen, turn out the lights, let the hum of the fridge be the lullaby and we will start it all again tomorrow!

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1 Comments:

At 12:26 PM, Blogger steph said...

You know the door is open Deb!

No baby news yet. This little one says "not yet"!

 

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