[Magdalen] For Lynn

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Hello Roger... thanks for asking. The street in front of the church was dry 
by the morning of my mom's memorial service (having been a river only 2 days 
before).  All went well, except that I forgot that the RC church has a 
propensity to only sing one or two verses of hymns. My mom had left 
direction for 5 hymns, which was the amount requested for use during the 
service. After singing partial hymns  for the first three during the 
service, after receiving communion I approached the organist - we were in a 
small chapel and he was in the corner and accessible - and asked if he would 
*please* play the communion hymn and recessional all the way through... he 
seemed to indicate that he would and then he did not.  I coped with this by 
remembering all the times my mom came to church with me (before she moved to 
TX) and ALWAYS said how nice it was that Episcopalians sang the hymns all 
the way through : ).... and my other coping mechanism from years ago came 
through for me also... I call it 'flowers at the wedding'.... if the bride 
gets to the church and the bridal party's flowers are not as expected, just 
go with the flow... and don't let it ruin the day/moment etc... : )

Yes... rain and bad weather are supposed to visit this area all weekend. We 
did have a big storm before daybreak today (Saturday) , but only rain in my 
neck of the woods. Tonight is supposed to be worse and N/NE of here, so 
hopefully we will remain unflooded. Up near Dallas there have been terrible 
tornadoes and hail.  One remaining danger here is high winds as the 
saturated ground easily 'gives up' large trees which blow over and have 
fallen on people, houses and vehicles during the course of the last week. 
Also the saturation level is part of the formula for the odds of flooding 
depending on how much and how fast any additional rain brings.

So far, high enough and dry,
Lynn

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When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "ROGER STOKES" <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 7:55 AM
To: "Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: [Magdalen] For Lynn

> Were you able to have your mother's memorial service last week as planned?
>
> Listening to the weather report overf breakfast I heard you're getting 
> even more rain and that last night a couple of planes at the airport were 
> moved by the wind.
> Keep safe and dry.
> Roger