We had a decent trip to Charleston. Had plenty of errands to run on Thursday evening. Target. Post office. Gas for the car. Had Winnie dropped off at the kennel by 9 am Friday, and we were on our way. Matthew provided the soundtrack. Anna worked her phone and napped. Stopped by a different Chickfila in Augusta, which worked out well.
Made it to Summerville by 2:30, giving us time to unpack and visit with Ceil’s mother, aunt, uncle. W&MC arrived with Shivonne, so we visited with them as well.
C drove her mother and her two helpers to the rehearsal dinner in Monks Corner. I chauffeured Uncle Lennie and Aunt Corrine. Plenty of time to visit with family, like Grant (above). On the menu: Low Country Boil (shrimp, sausage, potatoes, and corn on the cobb). Also brisket, green beans, potatoes, biscuits, brownies, and ice cream.
Saturday morning I went with the kids to Downtown Charleston for brunch at Frannie & The Fox, the restaurant inside The Emeline, a four star hotel. MC and I had the pancakes. Anna had an everything bagel with locks. M had sausage, eggs and potatoes. Will had a large bowl of oatmeal. Afterwards we walked around the downtown area, pushing Shivonne in her buggy. Saw a huge cruise ship docked nearby. C went with her mother to Cracker Barrell.
Drove back downtown for the 4 pm wedding. Then to the reception 15-20 miles up Ashley River Road, at the site of an ancient rice plantation. Aunt Corinne was saying how Lennie and Joan are related to the people who ran those plantations. Eleven of the twelve cousins were there. Phil & Teresa. Dic and Deb. Doris, Ragan, and Rod. Billy Hogge. Richard. Steve Jackson.
Dinner was served from tables at the four corners of the pavilion. I went with Ceil to first get shrimp and grits. I figured two shrimp weren’t going to kill me. Since the lines were long I hit the corner with the cookies and brownies next. Different people had contributed homemade sweets, including Matthew. I brought a couple of his pinwheel sage cookies for my nephews to taste. Then to the corner with the salads. I was scared I would be full before I got to the main course: BBQ. Also slaw and macaroni and cheese. After the speeches were finished the music was turned up, and the dancing began. Lennie, Corinne, and Joan were worn out, so we had to leave early to chauffeur them back to the hotel. Got to the room at halftime of the Duke/UNC game.
Shivonne was perfectly behaved the entire evening, at the wedding and reception. Sunday morning we packed up. Ceil hadn’t gotten to do anything Saturday, so we drove the 20+ miles downtown again. M picked a delicious place: Lewis BBQ. We arrived at 11:15 and there was already a long line. The sandwiches has almost a half pound of delicious meat. Very good. Then to an art store before heading back.
Lifted weights at the gym this AM, then back home to work.
Masters: Jack is not playing in the Par Three Tournament this year. More on the Par Three Tourney tomorrow.
After 26 years of wearing Nike golf shoes, Tiger showed up at Augusta National yesterday in FootJoys.
VIC POWER [SABR Bio] a one-time Phillie, he was the last first baseman to lead the American League in triples, with ten in 1958 while playing for KCA & CLE. Vic played 18 games for PHI in 1964. He won Gold Gloves at first base for four different teams: for KCA (1955, 56, 58); for Cleveland (1959, 60, 61); for the Twins (1962, 63); and LA (1964). He once to hit a leadoff and walk-off home run in the same game, on 07-May-1957, both off the Orioles’ Hal Brown
Denison: Denzel Washington spoke about his reaction when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Academy Awards last week. Washington went immediately to speak with Smith, and said “the only solution was prayer, the way I see it." When Hubert Davis, UNC's first-year coach, was introduced last April, he told a press conference that his faith "is the most important thing to me. My faith and foundation is firmly in my relationship with Jesus." An Atlantic headline: "Why People Are Acting So Weird" - acting more rudely and violently due to heightened stress, the increased use of alcohol and drugs, and isolation enforced by the pandemic. In a recent Gallup poll, only 17% were satisfied with the direction of the country.
There are more than two billion Muslims in the world, each of whom rejects the divinity of Jesus and is therefore without true hope of eternal life (cf. Romans 8:9). Tom Doyle wrote Dreams and Visions: Is Jesus Awakening the Muslim World? tells story after story of ways God is "awakening" the Muslim world by his Spirit. David Garrison wrote A Wind in the House of Islam: How God is drawing Muslims around the world to faith in Jesus Christ documenting statistically the fact that "Muslim movements to Jesus Christ are taking place in numbers we've never seen before." He identifies 82 movements to Christ in "what appears to be a historic spread of the gospel across the Muslim world."
Example: Sheikh Hakim is a hafez. He has memorized the Qur'an. He said "If someone said Jesus was God, we would kill him. When I was a Muslim, I burned churches for Islam." Then an evangelist gave him a New Testament. "That night Jesus came to me in a dream," he says. He saw himself chopping down a mosque's minaret. When Hakim came to faith in Christ, his father tried to murder him. He has led 400 Muslim sheikhs to Christ.
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