I was walking to church on Sunday morning, feeling a bit stressed about this and that, thinking the walk would do me good. This Chinese lady approached me asking for directions. She didn't speak much English and I got the impression she was looking for the church, so I told her to follow me. In the pathway, a man warned us that he saw a skunk which had by this time disappeared through the hedges. We all hurried through. The lady told me she had just moved to the area from Niagara Falls, I think she said. She had 2 sons and was living with one of them. I noticed she was smartly dressed. Then she told me she was 80 years old! What good shape she was in, she said she walked every day. Almost at the church I understood that she was in fact looking for the grocery store. So I pointed her in the right direction and she ran off. I said 'ran'! I hope to be in good shape like her when/if I get to 80! I think she was a bit lost when I met her because she wasn't going in the direction of the grocery store.
The church had a new associate pastor with a pronounced Scottish accent. He gave a good sermon, the bit I listened to. He said not to be so focussed on your own day to day problems, I guess, to think more of others. I think that's what he said.
