WHAT A WEEK!

This past week has been quite a week, at least for a fan of the Kansas City Royals.  As I have mentioned many times before, I am generally an early to bed person and then also an early to rise person.  Some nights when the Royals were playing I would go to bed but then could not go to sleep so I would get up and watch more of the game.  After doing this two or three times I ended up having some short nights at least as far as sleep was concerned.  

Finally when they were about to win the American League championship -- having won the first three games, I decided before the fourth game that I was going to stay with it until the end.  What a game that was as the Royals won 2-1.  They did a lot of celebrating that night but, once the game was over, I went to bed to get some sleep.

And then I got a big surprise on Tuesday morning when I got down to the nursing home.  The administrator called me aside and presented me with two tickets to the first World Series game.  That game will be played in Kansas City this coming Tuesday evening, October 21.  I asked the associate pastor here in Norfolk, Father Greg Carl, to go with me.  I knew Father as a student at Conception and he is a big baseball fan.  So we will drive to Kansas City on Tuesday.  After the game we will drive up to Conception Abbey and spend the night there before driving back to Norfolk on Wednesday.  

No wonder my blood pressure has been running a little high.  I saw my primary care doctor up here, Dr. David Lux, this past week and he increased my medicine a little for now.  I have never seen a World Series game and probably never expected to see one.  But, I guess we never know what will come in our lives.  God is good and gives us so many gifts in our lives.  Give me, Lord, a grateful heart always.  

Weather has been really nice up here the last days.  Typical fall weather with daytime temperatures in the 60's or 70's and then cool nights.  

This photo is taken from section 433 in Kaufman stadium.  Our 

seats are in this section.

So if you are watching the game on t.v. and see someone waving from the upper deck in right field, that's me.  

God bless all you readers.