two deliveries

Albemarle, NC

We got a chance to experience some grace last night when the church on the computer map didn't appear in reality. And it was after dark. Really dark. On a road through the Uwharrie forest, with nothing around but trees and night noises and the occasional rush of a passing car.

But just when I was starting to get concerned, a pickup slowed next to us and asked if we wanted a ride (in the distinctive Carolina twang). We gladly agreed and jumped in back. After a blustery ten mile ride we were very close to our destination for today, and immediately found a church porch to sleep on. Then spent the next twenty minutes detangling my hair...


The only other excitement yesterday was finding out that Kevin and Lorie Behrens had their baby back at Plow Creek. A boy, Owen Mark. I couldn't make much of a card, but I did find a good cartoon to send: