Pam and I had a meeting at church tonight. About a dozen people were there. It's the first "chuch" thing we've had since returning from vacation. And almost every person there, upon seeing us, said "Welcome back," or "We missed you" or "How was your trip?"

We were missed. We were really missed. That's not necesssarily the case in some churches; you can be gone for several weeks, and people say, "Oh, you went somewhere? I didn't know that."

Makes me appreciate Anchor all the more.