On the go

Well here I am on Monday morning.  The last 60 hours has been a flurry of activity mixed with quiet times off.  Down time has seen the tele on to stay informed as to what is happening in the middle east.
On Friday night I had to set up for our monthly lunch on the Saturday.  What happened which has never happened before is there was so much help in doing it.  Normally it is Merril and I doing what needs to be done.  But someone asked did I want a hand and Merril and I were quick to accept.  Then on the night people arrived and assisted totally unexpectedly.  It does not normally that that long (about an hour) but it was done so quickly.  We ended up buying Chinese food and eating it with a mate at the set up place.
On Saturday morning we went to the luncheon.  Merril had cooked a couple of dishes. I sat around and talked to various ones who had come along.  Many were people I had not spoken with before, but who are always at the lunch.  Others were people I had met and gotten to known briefly before and had a chance to talk at length with.  It was a great time.
There was plenty of assistance in pulling the tables down and arranging the place ready for the church service on Sunday.  In fact the guy who out of the blue has been the biggest help in times past commented how he needed to do very little as others assisted big time.  There were a lot of people there I had never seen before.  It was probably our largest get together ever.
On Sunday was the church service.  Merril and I normally arrive early to do last minute preparations and set up areas we could not do before the morning. 
I have a roster of people on tasks to do each Sunday and they were all there for the service and raring to go.  I keep the figures for those that come of a Sunday and we had the most since I have been keeping figures. The thing was too there were a number away.
Then this morning we were up and out early.  We have a prayer time and then go to breaky.  We sat taking for ages today.
I like to be busy and I like time off to.  The weekend was a happy mix.