Fall is here !

I love this time of year--clear sunny days, cool nights, leaves turning.
A walk in the woods helps me feel good, away from the chatter that is so often with us. The other afternoon Connie, Linda and I went to the Morton Arboretum -- founded by the Morton Salt guy. It's a huge "park" with ponds, groves of trees, plantings. As we approached it, the skies opened and poured down rain. We thought we were going to miss the experience. But soon the sun shown and we had a good walk around the place. On the way home we ate at Portillos on 95th street.
Today I attended the Hunger Team of our Presbytery. Gladys was once chair of the Team, back in 1980. But the job isn't yet done; we still have hunger in the world. In fact, with the price of food it may be worse today. So our churches collect money, and our Team has the fun of distributing it to food pantries in Chicago. And Linda and I plan to walk for hunger in the CROP WALK on October 19th.
On October. 5th our church will observe World Communion, and passages from the Bible will be read in different languages. Guess who w ill read in Tagalog? Me! But no one except Linda will know what I'm saying.
This evening our book club attended a talk by Elie Wiesel, the holocaust survivor and author. It was right here at our nearby University of Saint Xavier. He spoke informally of the lessons he has learned. He spoke of his faith that has carried him thru. I read somewhere that in the death camp he couldn't believe that God would let those things happen.
Let's keep the blog going. It's great. Chicago, Ensign