The Lord is with us...

We drove into Enid last Friday night.  They had a rain of over 2" the night before.  Roads were overflowed.  It had dried up by the time we got there.  We found out today as we arrived in Fort Worth that they had a torrential rain this morning.  It had cleared by the time we arrived.  We were worried about our next stop - New Orleans.  Should we try to go there, or by-pass it to avoid the flood.  Mid-afternoon Letty received a text from a person who used to be our neighbor - who just happened to be in New Orleans today.  She knew Letty had gone to school there, but had no idea we were on our way toward that area.  She comforted us by saying everything seemed to be normal there.  So our next stop is New Orleans.

 

Meanwhile we are with my cousin and family in Fort Worth.  Betty Buckley is my first cousin, and is 10 years older.  We haven't seen her in 8 years or so.  Her daughter, also a Betty Buckley, is a Broadway and TV actress.  She has starred in the plays Cats, 1776, and others: the mother in the TV series '8 is Enough'; several movies, most notably 'Tender Mercies'.  My only claim to fame is to have a famous cousin.

 

On our way out of Enid this morning, we met with a long time friend and her daughter.  They had just arrived back from Ethiopia with her newly adopted 19 month old girl.  Another blessing for us.

 

We did talk to my cousin in Greensboro, NC, and told him of our visit on a future date, of which we shall blog later.  Many years ago we had a foreign exchange student from Liberia.  She is now a nurse and lives with her family in Greensboro. We had been unable to get in touch with her.  Interestingly, we received a letter from her the day after we left on this trip.  Our daughter read the letter to us, so we had an address confirmation. My cousin was able to come up with a phone number for her, and we talked to her.  She was ecstatic that we were coming, and that we could spend some time together.

 

It will be a few days before we blog again.  My computer isn't working, and I won't have access to another one until we get to our daughter's house on Friday evening.  We plan to spend a day in New Orleans and go to Huntsville, Alabama, via Tuscaloosa to drop off some things to the tornado victims there.

 

Blessings to all,   Jim and Letty