Miscellany: Evie, Gathering, Recalibrating the Focus of the CGGC

We are in a holding pattern for the next few days as far as Evie is concerned. She's home, in seclusion and is resting. The symptoms of her non-stroke continue. She has the headache that is not typical of headaches she has had in the past, what the hospital is calling vertigo???, and pretty serious fatigue. She has no commitments for today and tomorrow. My hope for those days is that they will be jammie days and that she doesn't do anything but rest until Tuesday morning. She has an appointment with our very good GP on Tuesday afternoon and he will explain what the tests performed on her show and he will offer advice on how we move forward.
One of the many doctors who participated in her diagnosis conversation suggested that she didn't have a stroke but, more likely, she is experiencing a disease on the order of MS or Myasthenia Gravis or one of dozens of other diseases of that sort. Or, she could simply be very, very stressed.


There is no gathering today. We had planned to take the week off anyway. Evie has said, though, as her healthy journey progresses, nearly the last thing she will give up will be the Sunday Gathering in our home. She is definitely blessed by it. Still, it's a good thing for us to have this Sunday off.


If you haven't read the latest CGGC eNews, please do. In it, Lance declared, "We desperately need to recalibrate our focus in the CGGC."
He is talking about ending our obsession with growing churches to seek God's Kingdom. I hope you understand that that theme has been a major emphasis of this blog from the day I wrote its first words.
Lance calls our body to consider how rarely the Gospels record Jesus talking about the church and how often he focuses on God's Kingdom. And, he promises future articles on recalibration, defining what it means, to him (Lance) to seek God's Kingdom and righteousness.
I say, "Go for it, bro," just so long as neither Lance nor we think that his musings are Papal decrees. If we are a body, the time has come for an open conversation in which all voices will be respected.
I pray that Lance will succeed in provoking in us the state of spiritual weariness and burden Jesus talks about after He says, "Come to me." (Mt. 11:28). And, the "godly grief" that Paul says produces a repentance that leads to salvation. (2 Cor. 7)