Familiar Faces & Divine Appointments

We (Alan, Emily & I) are currently in the great Northwest. We have been apart while visits to relatives has occured in different states and locales.
Returning to Oak Harbor has been a wonderful blessing.
After living in a place for 25 years you find there are lots of familiar faces that you recognize and it is wonderful to stop and share what we have been doing since we've been gone.
Walking in a store where I can read all the product labels and then stopping to chat in the aisle with friends has been fun.
I even have met people briefly as they are going about their business of the day and we stop for a smile and a hug in the doorway of Office Max, the Chamber of Commerce, Library or Pregnancy Care Clinic! I have friends in many places.
Our home church even placed a sign on the highway proclaiming "The Beckett's Are Back!"
I appreciate the tangible expression of their love.