Faith

On the way home from church last week I heard a radio spot.

One guy tells another guy about his neighbor who's always hard on his son. They'll be out playing ball in the yard and the dad will constantly tell his son, "You'll never be a ball player if you keep messing up like that."

Then the guy says, "Get this - on Sunday mornings the whole family gets in the car and goes to church."

His friend asks, "How do you know they're going to church?"

St. Thomas Episcopal Church and Drs. Annie and John Skaggs hosted the St. Francis' Blessing of the Beasts on Sunday, Oct. 3 at the Skaggs' farm in Campbellsville.

Dr. Jeff Eaton was in Russell County on Labor Day weekend for his annual guest speaking engagements at the church he founded at Lake Cumberland's Jamestown Marina boat dock 21 years ago and at Fairview Baptist Church.

Eaton, a 1983 graduate of Campbellsville University, is a Campbellsville native. He started a new church, Hope Community Church, in Lawrenceburg, after having served as pastor of First Baptist Church in Russell Springs for many years. His wife, Julie Winn Eaton, also a Campbellsville native and CU alumna, sings with Hope's praise teams.

As I was on my knees one Saturday afternoon, I had an epiphany.

Lest you think I was on my knees praying, I wasn't, although Lord knows I should have been. And it wasn't so much an epiphany as it was a random thought.

My husband and I were painting, he up on a ladder, me on my knees with a brush, painting the bottom of the walls along the edging.

My random thought was that everything in life illustrates Bible truth, as someone once said. On that Saturday, with a paintbrush in my hand, I thought about how Jesus talked about counting the cost of following him.