Pastor Tom shared a story about a well-known Hollywood couple who had a Mexican lady cleaning their house; and her singing must have particularly bothered the man of the house one day, when he asked her if she only knew a couple songs. She laughed, saying, did he think she was just there to have the great honor of cleaning his house? She was there not to clean his house, but to show him how to clean. She led them both to Jesus, showing them how to cleanse their soul.

(all the dates are obviously as initially posted, and may lend some perspective to a time frame, though additional thoughts have been added, mostly within the posts towards the end ...so there is a mix of time and current events with that timely perspective of thoughts for the day at that particular moment.)