Back home after total hip replacement surgery and four months of physical therapy, my grandmother returned home Friday morning. I took my son and spent the day with her all day Saturday ending the day by test driving her new hip out to my church, Gateway Church in Southlake, TX with Pastor Robert Morris. In exchange, we would take her to her home church (and my childhood church), Bethesda Community Church in Fort Worth, TX with Pastor Desmond Evans.

We were aiming for the 4PM Saturday evening service but we got delayed by a visit from Health Services and ended up going to the 5:45PM service, which traditionally is a video service. (Robert preaches first and last services with the middle being prerecorded from the first service of that same day.) To be honest, I really didn’t think too much about live versus video either way because I usually just end up watching the video screen. My grandmother, on the other hand, has only seen Robert on the small screen or the big screen (when she has visited Gateway before). She has been moved by his testimony, that is for sure, but what I found out later, she always wanted to see him in person.

It is funny how sometimes we take things for granted. I see Robert preach every single time he is on the pulpit so it wasn’t a big thing to me. To my grandmother, it was huge thing to see him live.

We show up to the 5:45 and the service progress as usually. I saw Robert approach the pulpit and thought, “Ah, he is preaching live.” and didn’t give it much thought beyond that. My grandmother’s eyesight is not too good and she didn’t see him right away until he strolled over to our end of the stage. She squeezed my arm and exclaimed, “Oh Robert is here.”

I replied after the service, “Mom, if you wanted to see him live, I would have taken you to the live services. Next time, we will sit front and center, even at the chagrin of the people who have to sit behind me.” (I am 6′5″, 250lbs and a mane of wild crazy hair.)

How funny is it that the littlest thing that you do unintentionally makes somebody else’s day.

The exchange? She gets to see Robert preach an excellent sermon on Salt and Light. At Bethesda, the 100+ member choir with full orchestra performed “Revelation Song”, which is a staple during worship at Gateway.

What a great weekend of services! I go from attend a different church every single weekend for the last five years in the search for a church to getting settled into a home church and having the privilege of attending fantastic churches such as Lake Pointe in Rowlett, Potter’s House in Grand Prairie and The Village Church with Matt Chandler in Lewisville, TX.