"Hi, I'm Huggy!"

Hello there friends! Today was great. Got up early and headed to the church I found online, The First Christian Church of Orlando. The church was great! It was definitely a Godsend. I have a great story that will help communicate how great his church was! So I walk in the front door and the first thing I see is this little old woman. She got this big eyes and this crazy white hair and she’s passing out the bulletins. I go walk past her and she says, “I’m Huggy!” So I turn around with this puzzled look on my face. Her nametag says “Barbara.” “The people ‘round here call me Huggy.”
“Do they?” I said.
“Cause I love hugs.” It was at this point she went in for the kill—right around my waist, head buried in my chest. Now I know I’m attractive but goodness, this was a little unexpected ☺ (these smiley faces are looking like frowning faces…just f.y.i. they’re smiling). I can’t lie, I definitely hugged her back. She pulled back and said, “My name’s actually Barbara.”
As I walked away I knew I was gonna love this church! As for the service, it was really solid. The doctrinal statements online were great. The worship pastor looks about my age, but the senior past, Shan, had been in the navy—when he shook my hand I thought he was gonna break it off. I loved the service, though I had to continually stop myself from comparing it to Kirby and let it stand alone. Pastor Shan Wood spoke about the Bible being our guide on life’s journey. He said that there are definitely going to be things in that book that you don’t want to hear, but are necessary to life. He drew scripture from Hebrews 4:6-16. He spent a lot of time on verse 12 where it says the Bible is “living and active.” He compared the scriptures to a GPS. He said that when you get off course your GPS will recalculate according to the error you’ve made. He said the Bible’s the same way. When we choose our own paths sometimes the Bible is right there to meet us where we’re at and bring us back to the correct path.
After church, I headed home and spent a little bit of the afternoon just chilling. Then I got an opportunity to go to “Give Kids the World.” It’s a program Disney is affiliated with. “Give Kids the World” targets children with life altering diseases. They bring the kids and their families down to Florida for a week, keep them at a beautiful resort, and pay for them to go to all the theme parks and stuff. It’s really awesome! I’ve got to share this story, they said a little girl was on her way down for the program but when she landed in Orlando she got sick and had to immediately be rushed to the hospital. Well, come to find out, her favorite princess was Cinderella. So Disney had Cinderella head over to the hospital. People say all the sudden they see Cinderella booking it through the halls of this hospital looking for the little girl. She ended being able to spend an hour with the girl and her family. The next morning, Disney got a call saying the little girl had passed away. So, I didn’t say that to depress you, simply to give you an idea of what this organization does for these kids. So we went and played a larger-than-life game of Candyland with the kids, we made gingerbread houses, and had a dance party. All in all, it was a fantastic way to spend a Sunday!