Evie's birthday was on Thursday. She shares her birthday with a niece who is two years younger than she and who was more like little sister when they were growing up.
Evie and Joyce, her niece, decided quite some time ago, to organize a family reunion around the celebration of their birthday this year. Evie's the youngest of her generation and she is no spring chicken. (On our drive home, she opined that this may turn out to be the last time the family gathers--and I suspect that she's correct.) Two of Evie's four siblings have been gone for years. The oldest remaining is 78.
Yesterday was a long, hot and humid day and, coming off of the hospitalization and the ongoing physical problems that she is addressing, she woke up today exhausted.
So, we decided to invite the regulars of the Sunday gathering to join us at the diner we sometimes eat at for Sunday dinner, on us.
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Certainly, this is not a way of meeting that is traditional in church circles.
However, it strikes me that, based on the Gospel accounts of the life of Jesus, what we will do is more like what Jesus and his first followers did than what takes place in a worship service.
That is an interesting thought to me, but accurate, I think. We will share the kind of fellowship that made the Pharisees cringe.
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