Gordonsburg/ Little Swan News

August is proving to be a hot month with temperatures in the upper eighties and nineties during the day and in the sixties at night, which is pleasant. There have been scattered showers around the area with intermittent patches of rain. That has been true for only a few miles separating the showers. We could use some good ground soaking rains, but we know that God will bless us with what we need.

Those who are sick or shut-in and in need of prayers for whatever the need: William Barber, David and Joyce Barnes, G. Y. Bennett, Connie Bonner, Barbara Brown, Dorothy Brown, Amy Carroll, Betty Carroll, Dorothy Carroll, Joann Carroll, Kathleen Carroll, Pam Carroll, Spencer Clark, Fada Clay, Billy Cothran, Terrell Crews, Marian Dryden, Rusty Dupont, Polly Edwards, Geneva Grover, Helen Hardin, Myrtle Harvey, Melody Hensley, Beverly Holloway, Mickey James, Monette King, Linda Mercer, Wendy McKnight, Rita Norris, Angie Odom, Lonnie Odom, Coleen Rasbury, J. T. Runions, Mike Runions, Mona Runions, Tommy Shaw, Nell Skelton, Tommy Steadman, Dustin Stutts, Nancy Taylor, Tommy Taylor, Annette Williams, Doug Williams, Margie Willis and Lola Wilson. Please remember these in your daily prayers, along with others you know who are sick or shut-in.

Happy birthday to Alicia Reeves, August 15, Judy Holt and Dakota Keller, August 17, Paul Keller and Cheyene Morris, August 18, and Kathleen Carroll, August 20. Wishing for these many more happy days to celebrate life and hope they have a great birthday.

Happy anniversary to J. T. and Marsha Runions, August 17. We wish them many more years to celebrate life together.

We express sympathy to the families of Ray Kilpatrick, Lynn Renee Hinson, Brenda Runions, Joanna Heather Pulley, Rachael Leann Eddington, Nicholas Matthew Gough, Barbara Jean Toddy, Ronald Dale Gossett, Glen Everett Ammons, Edith Lawson, Martha Vaughan and Rebecca Lee Wellman. Prayers for these families and any other families who have lost loved ones we may not know about.

School is off to a good start with children and teachers back in the classroom and practicing the social distancing in many different ways. We pray that this will continue and become a part of getting back to a more normal way of life. Some of the sports teams have begun competition and we know they enjoy this. Many of the younger ones really missed Dixie Softball last season because of the school closing and the restriction of the number of people who could be together.

Girl Scouts in Lewis County are going to begin meetings in the coming days. So if you have a girl in scouts or who wants to be in scouts, please call me or get in touch with a scout leader.

I still encourage you, if you can, get out and ride around and look at the countryside. There are lots of flowers or weeds, as some call them, that are especially along the creeks and waterways around the county. God has given us a beautiful world to enjoy, so let us enjoy it.

I pray you have a great week and that your life is filled with good health and happiness, and that you are able to enjoy life. We are not promised tomorrow. So do those things you know you need to do today for no one is able to promise to do it tomorrow. Let us learn to live one day at a time.