Our cat Tabitha

Here are some photos of our cat Tabitha, and the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey says. After we got her a few weeks ago, she became deathly sick. She stopped eating, drinking and moving. Louise took her to a vet, who said she had feline distemper, and would probably not make it ("but there's always hope").

Thanks for those who knew and prayed! After two days of constant sleep, she gradually began to eat and drink and strengthen. After several more days, she was totally back to normal.

We named her Tabitha after the woman in Acts who was raised from the
dead. Also, she is a tabby cat, and you
can call her "Tab" for short. She has
energy and personality ("cuteness to
women") in abundance. Feel free to
come by some time to see her while
she is so young and playful.

Someone said she is the most
prayed for cat in Manalapan!

Church after the big storm

Yesterday morning was an unusual service. With a thin early service crowd due to the time change hour loss, a huge storm erupted during the message. The lights flickered several times, and then one-third of the electricity went out in church until evening.

We couldn't use our video projectors to show either of the two videos (we will show "rooftop evangelist" in the future to the later service, it is a classic), message notes, scriptures, or song lyrics in the later service. Some of our classrooms were dark. Several of our members were up most of the night bailing out their basements, since their sump pumps were out due to an extended power loss.

Jesus didn't use technology, but I never realized how dependent we were on it.

Manalapan- a great place to live

This was an exciting week for my town. Thursday, a mountain lion was likely seen off my road, about a mile away. Several people saw it, including an animal control officer who was certain of it. No one knows where it came from, since mountain lions only live out west- was it released, did it escape? Be sure to keep your pets and children inside.

The same day, the police arrested a man in southern Manalapan (15 Stayman Court) who had turned his rented home into a pot farm. In this and 4 other rented homes in nearby towns, the group was growing over 33,000 marijuana plants with countless internal lights and equipment, some of which illegally tapped non-metered electricity.

There is a sign coming into town- "Manalapan, a great place to live." With its mountain lions and pot farm, it's a jungle out there!

Alice in Wonderland

This movie is fun- we saw it last night. It reminds me of Narnia and Lord of the Rings at the same time.

I have the answer to the unanswered riddle which Johnny Depp (the Mad Hatter) keeps asking- "What is the connection between a raven and a writing desk?" Both tie in with Edgar Allen Poe- he wrote "The Raven" at a writing desk (there were no computers back then). A little known fact of trivia is that Poe's poem is about Charles Dickens' pet bird, whom Poe acquired after it died and was stuffed. Today the raven is in a museum in Philadelphia, and a minor tourist attraction.

I'll bet you didn't know this!