Dear Friends,

The foolishness of April Fool’s Day seemed to come early! Keeping track of time is more like the assignment of the long distance runner than the idle turning of calendar pages. Can it really be April when I still have two left over Christmas cards on my desk?!? Well, they say time and tide wait for no man – and they are not very patient with women either! Happenings have happened, and in their events, I am frequently surprised by joy and consistently grateful to God.

The A.D. Players Company manages to keep up with its schedule and claim its hopes for the future. We enjoy the spacious view of land on Westheimer and find its greening underlines our hopes for the theater’s processing. Such a venture may be an awkward addition to this critical time of limping economy, but architect and engineers are at work daily unto the practical claiming of hopes and designs. Yes, I assure everyone, there will be plenty of restrooms! There will also be opportunity for further expansion of the work we now honor at Grace Theater and in our children’s theater now in the accommodations given us by St. Luke’s United Methodist Church and increased production for our touring units and theater academy with the addition of a black box theater encouraging special vistas of creativity. It’s a wonderful future in process, but meanwhile we serve a full calendar and ever-growing audiences where we dwell in the present.

I have relished several out of town performances; a wonderful time in San Antonio where my treasured friend, Babs invited me into her church for an evening of theater. Several speaking engagements enlightened my calendar; a chance to meet with the Guild processing the splendid work of Yellowstone Academy for children freed from needs beyond estimation. I loved being included in a programming set up to establish mentors for young women and there I was, “mentored” by the interest of the young women who crowded my table after the meeting. Important Fact: we seniors are needed by the younger generation to show them that the future is well worth its vitamin pills! I delight in the “goings” of such opportunities and am grateful for their scheduling.

We continue to maintain Manor of Grace, a small publishing house that has recently been tutored by a new personality, Cyndi Crittenden, who was part of the original team that became A.D. Players, and is now offering publications and previews and paged readings through Facebook. We are working on a children’s book with her artistry and my stories. The team of Manor of Grace and Grace Theater office management match schedules daily. Rebecca Campbell serves a full calendar of appointments and greets me every work day morning with a prepared schedule and a fresh cup of coffee. A small “gaggle” of friends have become a vibrant staff around me. Irby Bair, who is our theater’s development director and the staffing energy of that company adds friendship to the details of management.

The “Goings On” of Jeannette Clift George are carefully monitored by the grace of God. This year I found a new verse: Psalm 115:3. That verse opened new understanding. God is Over Everything!!! He does what seems right to Him!!! And this Holy God for Whom there is no lessening of power – this Holy God is for me!!! He measures my tears and does not dismiss my need. He wants the best for me whether I see it as best or not. Oh, my friend, I hold out this God to you today. This God, Who sent His Son to make each day an Easter, this God, this day loves you!!! He said so in His Book and He never lies! My friend, Irby parked in front of a building one day and read the sign posted in the window, “WE HAVE DECIDED NOT TO FOLLOW OUR POLICY.” There is no such sign in the window of God’s Holy Temple. His eye is still on the sparrow and He includes all His children in His gaze. “I would have despaired had I not believed I would see the Goodness of God in the land of the living.” (Psalm 27:13) This God, this God, Who does wonders, this God, Who (according to His Word) remembers that we are frail, this God takes loving thought of you and of me. “Only the rebellious live in a parched land.” (Psalm 67:6).

So, as for my “goings on”, I frequently lose my way, trip over my own feet, consider the matter deeply and do the wrong thing, but my “goings on” are under the watch-care of Him, Whose eye catches up with the sparrow and never looses sight of me. May your “goings on” this day be ribboned with John 3:16 and the fact that THE God, Who is over all – not only does wonders, but loves you wonderfully!

Love,

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