Good morning, Gals and Pals! We are coming up on the 2nd Sunday in Advent here, and where I live, we are celebrating the occasion with a fresh coating of snow (six inches, to be exact). We've got a busy day sermon-writing day lined up, with lots of advent waiting, watching and wondering going on.
Of course, this is the week that that locust-and-honey-eating prophetic forerunner, John the Baptist, makes his appearance. And that's not all of course. There are visions of peace and equity in Isaiah, the promise of a king who won't judge by appearance, but who will rule with justice. There's a great conversation to start you off
here.
As for me, I can't stop thinking about the stump of Jessse. But what about you? Are you stumped? Or are your creative juices (aka the Holy Spirit) flowing this morning? What have you got to share? What questions do you have? (and just how are behind are you on your Christmas preparations?)
As is my tradition, I have blueberry pancakes and fair trade coffee to start off the day. I promise you more treats as the day progresses! I hope you will stop in, and stay awhile.
There is plenty to share!
Of course, this is the week that that locust-and-honey-eating prophetic forerunner, John the Baptist, makes his appearance. And that's not all of course. There are visions of peace and equity in Isaiah, the promise of a king who won't judge by appearance, but who will rule with justice. There's a great conversation to start you off here.
finished and printed, and almost ready for bed. a few visuals to wrap etc.
ReplyDeletelooking at Isaiah, with a touch of John the Baptist.
impossible kingdom
some left over chicken and corn pie from dinner, help yourself.
God bless you in your preparation.
welcome, pearl! thanks for the offering (both the sermon and the food...)
ReplyDeletegreat title!
Good morning, everyone! Light snow here (so far) and fire will be lit before too long.
ReplyDeleteMy writing--nineteen pages of booklet for my first Discovering the Divine Feminine Retreat here in the house--took a couple months and finished yesterday afternoon! Now I have two hours to finish tidying up, setting out materials, and getting centered before folks arrive.
It's been both exhilarating and terrifying to take action on this long time dream, and called me so much deeper on my own path. I am very, very grateful. Will send good energy to all preparing to preach and lead worship today...Would appreciate prayers for the attendees to be deeply moved by the Spirit and for me to hold a safe space, assist as needed, and stay out of Her way!
Pumpkin nut bread, fruit, and a box of fudge to share...
Praying for you, Dr. Laura.
ReplyDeleteJust got in from shoveling about 6-8 inches. I've got a funeral at 10 and need to get out!
after that, I still have to finish my sermon for tonight/tomorrow. I'm not as done as I'd like to be.
I'll post my initial thoughts in a little while.
I'm behind where I would like to be and have a book study to lead this morning and a church potluck/ornament swap this evening. So in between, let's hope the Spirit arrives!
ReplyDeleteSongbird, I'm with you. praying for the spirit...
ReplyDeleteGood morning everybody,
ReplyDeleteI am way behind in my study of the text, so today is going to be jam packed for sure.
Will check in later, would anyone like hazelnut cream coffee to get unstumped?
Wow, busy people here already! Prayers all around.
ReplyDeleteI woke early this morning and couldn't go back to sleep for worrying over things like my Sunday School lesson for tomorrow, worship for December 26 (that may seem random, but I am doing something different for that service and need to be working on it all month), and, of course, the sermon for tomorrow. Despite my confidence about the text (I'm doing Isaiah, title "The Glorious Improbable"), I am not feeling all that great about things yet.
And getting up early didn't really get me very far. But I am determined to stay more focused today than usual....
We are supposed to be getting a few inches of snow today and that will likely stop a lot of people from coming to church. So I am debating moving the annual meeting even though next Sunday is the Bishop's visit. Maybe I'll just postpone the vote for vestry members....
ReplyDeleteI'm going with Isaiah this week. In addition to the text, I am going to talk about the image of all the animals at the watering hole in the Travelers Insurance ad - I think they make those ads for preachers BTW. I want to talk about how we keep the vision in Isaiah from being reality, how we need to be a community like the watering hole where there is no enmity or differentiation.
Even though I'm not talking about John the Baptist, I highly recommend Fred Craddock's sermon on Day1 about that text. How does he get away with saying what he says?!
welcome, God_Guurrlll, earthchick, and Margaret! cup of coffee anyone?
ReplyDeleteI'm on my way to the funeral, as soon as I scrape off my car windows, and look at the sermon one more time.
I'll be back in a little while.
oh, and prayers all around back at ya -- for your decisions regarding worship tomorrow, Margaret, for study, G_G, and for sermons and worship, earthchick!
ReplyDeleteI'm not done yet either. My exegesis is finished and I have a focus and function statement--now just to write it out. BTW, I got a call from ELCA churchwide because they wanted to post something from my blog on "Living Lutheran." Here is the link: http://www.livinglutheran.com/. It's on the left entitled, "We Know Who."
ReplyDeleteBlessings to you all. I have a fresh pot of coffee brewed for all who are interested.
I forgot--I'm preaching on the Rom. passage about hope. The church I'll be at needs a dose of the good news.
ReplyDeleteHello Diane and others! I've got the better end of the stick this morning keeping the kids from hurting themselves or others wil my husband digs out of that same snow. Later we're off to Xmas shop in it while my in laws watch the kids.
ReplyDeleteI'll be back to pull my thoughts together later tonight probably. With communion and a congregation mtg tomorrow I need to keep things even shorter than short. I'm on Joseph in my tour through Mt's version of the nativity. Using the gospel from the 4th Sunday this year on each Sunday with a supplemental text each week. Anyway, I found the CC blogging toward Sunday from the last lectionary go around helped me organize my thoughts, and I SHOULD be able to write quickly when I get to it. SHOULD.
Okay, I have been buckling down and getting some good work done. I have a start, so yay for that. I'm doing that thing where I set the timer for 20 minutes and can do nothing but write or think - no internet, no getting up for anything, etc. Then I get a wee break before setting it again.
ReplyDeleteOkay, time's up. Back to it!
(p.s. to Ivy - good on you for doing the whole focus and function statement thing! That's great!)
It is a busy group already, but this IS the place to be on Saturday. I wrote a sermon 1st draft on Isaiah 11 on Thursday and now have to look at it and see how bad it is.
ReplyDeleteMy voice is returning, (it left on Monday) but doesn't last long so I created a worship where I do very little speaking. I still need to re-craft the SS materials for others to read for me and should be writing several days of camp curriculum for New Earth. Instead I posted a reverb '10 response. Now to get back to work. Finished my fair trade coffee, altho am tempted by G_G's hazelnut cream. I feel for those of you shoveling snow, it's going south of us, I hear.
I have a new phone so I'm checking out its ability to post here. My old phone would not let me post. I think Isaiah will be my focus when I get to the sermon.
ReplyDeleteOff lectionary - preaching the Advent Candle themes this Advent to go with multi generational study - so this week is love. Went with John 3: 16 -21 and wound up focused on 3:17 - why the emphasis on lack of condemnation/judgment? Quoting from Same Kind of Different as Me, Who Stole my Church, and unChristian. We'll see how it goes.
ReplyDeleteToday is a mixed bag of stuff around house and beginning to celebrate Manboy's 18th birthday which is tomorrow. Gifted and Talented is cooking scrambled eggs, turkey sausage and turkey bacon. We are happy to share.
good morning! getting ready for an early wedding, then i'll be back. waking up with fred craddock - thanks for the link!
ReplyDeletePerfect children's sermon idea, or as an example for adults: the story of Mzee and Owen, a baby hippo orphaned in the big tsunami who bonded with a crotchety old tortoise. If one added another line to Isaiah, it could be "the hippo will graze with the tortoise" :-)I found a children's book with lots of pictures in our public library, and the details are easily found on the internet as well.
ReplyDeleteI'm at my dad's to celebrate his 80th birthday; we have a house full of leftovers from last night's party, so come help yourself!
welcome, welcome, welcome back. I'm back from the funeral, and trying to get down to things here at church, but also dealing with a LOT of snow in the church parking lot.
ReplyDeletegotta get down to it, or I'll be empty at 5.
Been playing at the beach all day. Brrrr. Heating up with coconut hot choc before getting down to writing. Thought earlier in the week I might do a kind of visual lectio divina for Isaiah 11 but going to save that for the night time congregation and be more trad with morning service - I'd better get busy - thinking about imagining the kingdom and then getting to work on making it a reality as a discipline for Advent.
ReplyDeleteAs well as the hot choc, I bring spiced apple muffins to share.
Thank you Betsy!!! I'm preaching on Isaiah and the only thing I didn't have done was the children's story. This one is perfect!
ReplyDeleteusing the Hicks picture, a slightly different version, for a SHORT children's time because they also light the advent candles. preaching on children and snakes. If it comes together I'll post later perhaps. I could make you a nice skim milk fair trade vanilla latte if you like.
ReplyDeleteI have 1968 words. that was a good year so I'll quit. It's a typical length but I've been going shorter. I hope my voice holds.
ReplyDeleteAll your hot drinks sound wonderful. I'm so tired of tea, lemon & honey. But it does seem to help my voice.
Thanks for the prayers, Diane. The retreat day is going beautifully and just as my own director said to expect: do a bunch of work, create a great structure and abundance of materials, and then watch the Spirit take it in a whole different direction!
ReplyDeleteWe're a bit more than halfway through, though we may go over a bit as people's comfort dictates. I am doing and talking much less than I planned--discussion and sharing really took off and at an hour and fifteen minutes into a planned hour of quiet time one person is in the throes of journaling and the other getting lunch. So I will likely streamline the planned Sophia and Shekinah sessions into one to allow for another good period of private prayer afterwards, followed by the closing sharing and ritual.
wow! lots of good hot drinks for this cold, snowy day (at least that's what it looks like where I'm at.)
ReplyDeleteI'm one paragraph away from being done, I think.
will be back in a few minutes.
Hi everyone. It sounds like everyone is really busy--that is certainly the case here. So far this morning I've been to our annual Christmas fair, officiated at a burial, prepared for our St. Nicholas activity for the kids tomorrow, and made Advent blue bows for the wreaths on all our outside doors. Now it is time to start writing...something about JtB and the root of jesse...I've had vague ideas floating all week but I need to pull them together. Tomorrow we will have in addition to St. Nicholas, a birthday cake for our 92 year old pastoral associate and and Advent bible study led by our seminarian intern.
ReplyDeleteAnd today is my birthday, so virtual cake all around while we write.
BTW, I used my iPad at the interment today in bright sun, no problems, BUT I found out I can't see the screen with my sunglasses on...didn't anticipate that.
Happy Birthday, Rev Dr Mom!! Sounds like a very full day indeed!
ReplyDeleteFWIW, my word verification is "optic" - thought that was funny since you were talking about seeing your iPad.
The other church bookend of my day has been removed due to the illness of the person hosting the party. I'm worried about her, glad she has family around to support her today. Waiting to hear if she's going to the ER or to check into the hospital.
ReplyDeleteSo, I am home after a a great book discussion on "Mennonite in a Little Black Dress." I'm delighted to recall that tomorrow is Communion, so it's a Communion meditation I'm writing and not a full-fledged sermon. That raises the question for me, is that simply a change of length? Or is it a change of focus, to point to the table? Sometimes I write it as the latter, then take the more specifically Communion-related parts and use them as a bridge when we go to the table instead of within the sermon itself.
For inspiration, I'm listening to my Christmas playlist on Shuffle, leading to hilarious things like hearing a soprano sing, "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly Host praising God and saying:" "Christmas Is Children who just can't go to sleep." (Lou Rawls)
:-)
cutest wedding couple evah dispatched. I am going to the reception for a while which I dont usually do... so not sure when sermon is going to fit in there among fetching son and tending to sick hubby (wow, are we sick of being sick at our house, how about you???)
ReplyDeletethanks for the childrens time idea! going with that and glad for something to check off the list!
Okay, I'm getting nowhere. Who's up for a Slurpee run? Or just about anything else that might shake a sermon loose?
ReplyDeletea slurpee sounds good to me, songbird. I'm going to practice what I've got now, the early edition (as I've grown to call it).
ReplyDeletenot wild about it, although I thought it was such a good idea eons ago (last Tuesday?)
oh, well....
Rough draft done. Thanks Pearl for the Poem! Used it in my sermon. Please stop by and read all about Isaiah and John the Baptist.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday, RevDrMom! I'll take a piece of that cake. Equal Exchange fair trade 55% dark chocolates here to share too.
ReplyDeleteRetreat is done! We agreed to stop at fifteen minutes over and I finished on the absolute dot.
Full of joy and gratitude at first and now the winding down, down, down...Hoping I won't crash too hard, as sometimes happens after this kind of intense spiritual work...And very glad I have a friend coming over for dinner as spouse and kids are away overnight. A bit of musical prep needed for mass tomorrow but I've got time yet.
Holy cow, it's almost 5pm and I haven't written a word, not even a heading on the text...after I posted at 2 pm I changed clothes, put in a load of laundry, talked to a couple of my kids, did some sermon prep reading and promptly fell asleep on the couch! I guess it will be late night preacher party for me....
ReplyDeleteHello everyone. I've been reading and pondering for a few hours now, after a big finance meeting this morning and a few other errands afterwards. Of course, while I read, I happen to be cheering my alma mater on to victory (we hope)...so the sermon-writing is going slow.
ReplyDeleteI've got a candle reflection (hope) to write on the Romans passage and am loving what's posted at For the Someday Book. The sermon is on Matthew and John the Baptist, or at least it will be eventually...
After completely giving in and adapting an old one for use tomorrow, I started writing a new one. I believe this counts as self-torture.
ReplyDeleteI believe you are right, SB. Self-torture it is.
ReplyDeleteI really wanted to be done by now. By typing that sentence, I've admitted I'm not.
ReplyDeleteI have pieces of 3 sermons. I need 1 meditation length. ::sigh::
At least I have plenty with which to work.
I'll be back after the first SS Christmas party of the season. Maybe my ornament will have a preachable sermon tucked inside it.
GAH! I really feel like this sermon should be done by now.
ReplyDeleteAfter a modicum of self-torture, I have a sermon, an actual new one: The Peace of Wild Things. Now I'm having dinner. Pasta, anyone?
ReplyDelete4 pm. Nothing on paper. But, got a few christmas decs up at least. And now, why the heck not, a trip to Joannes just to see what's happening in the fabric store on the day of the Biggest Football Game Of The Year (if you're in Oregon, anyway...)
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'll come home with some sushi and some inspiration.
huh. 7:00 pm and I am just sitting down...I have simply scraps of a paragraph or two....been busy with church stuff all day--hanging of the greens, caroling to shut-ins, readying the CE room for our annual Crafts and Carols tomorrow...
ReplyDeletehope I still have some company much later on!!!!!
HI all, back after I preached the early edition, with modest success. Songbird, I do love your title. but I can't read it until I sit down and force myself to rewrite one section of sermon for tomorrow.
ReplyDeletewhich I really hope won't take long.
pasta sounds good to me.
Amazingly I have a draft in just under two hours, on the theme of hope found in all three readings, hope that is still there for us (and boyhowdy, do we need it!). I'm going to put the laundry in the dryer, have some dinner (happily I have some Indian from a Whole Foods run last night) and then do some revision. Maybe it won't be too late a night after all.
ReplyDeleteWhew! 1am here. time to call it a night. I've posted here. A bit short but it is communion so it will have to do. Still to sort out something for the evening - looks like there will be no holy nap tomorrow. LOL
ReplyDeleteI am about to go grab my copy of Deathly Hallows for reference tomorrow (as well as my copy of Return of the King, I will read from both I think). But to save me time---where does Harry come across the saying "the last enemy to be destroyed is death"? Is it in the cemetery at Godric's Hollow as I remember?
ReplyDeleteFound it! On James and Lily's tombstone. But looking at the passage I am not sure if it will work as I was hoping...
ReplyDeleteOh well Gandalf and Aragorn outside Minas Tirith finding the White Tree will certainly work (and I suspect Tolkien may have been influenced-even unconsciously-by the shoot from teh stump of Jesse in writing that scene).
hi, I'm having popcorn and cocoa and not fixing my sermon. (sigh)
ReplyDelete"the last enemy to be destroyed is death."
Isn't that from the Bible?
I'm sorry, but I didn't read Deathly Hallows. (revealing my almost total ignorance...)
I am not sure the phrase is Biblical but the concept certainly is Diana
ReplyDelete1 Corinthians 15:26, Diana was right
ReplyDeleteHi there - I'm here hunkering down with the late nighters! Hi revkjarla! Actually, I have an hour or so until I'm on for bedtime (usually the purview of dh, but as I mentioned he is down for the count....)
ReplyDeleteBack from the fabric store emptyhanded. However. Did find a copy of Owen and Mzee at the library - what a great book! Thanks again for the recommendation.
Finally getting to some reading - and I think I have a delightful revgal to thank for some really helpful stuff on Isaiah. Thanks, You Know Who You Are :) - you went in a direction I was thinking, but did it much more artfully!
Anyway, in the next hour I'm gonna rock out a decent outline or ELSE. I'll be back - dont do anything fun while I'm gone :b
OH, one more thing for Gord.
ReplyDeleteCant tell you how often I"ve thought of a snippet of a quote and then been surprised when I looked it up that the context is actually nothing like I remembered!
Okay, went VERY far afield...
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I think it works...and I certainly enjoyed envisioning the WILD angels.
I can't believe I'm still working on this. I feel like I might (finally!) be close to an end, but I keep circling for an ending and not finding one. Plus, I'm not entirely sure my second half follows from my first. Bah!!
ReplyDeleteHey, everybody! It's almost 10 here on the East Coast, so I am headed to bed. I hope all goes well on Sunday (or is going well, Pearl!). Good night!
ReplyDeletestill here. fixing a little, but having a little crisis. need to go to bed, but I forgot my manuscript at church, it looks like, with the fixed ending, which is a major bummer.
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm back from a shopping day at the Too Big Mall which went amazingly well. Maybe it shouldn't have been too amazing. The two bigger kids were home with grandparents.
ReplyDeleteI don't have anything written yet and I'm just planning to have one of my good old fashioned all-nighters. Watching the Big 12 championship and it's too exciting to even pretend to write and watch at the same time.
At some point I'll have to also watch the Adult Ed DVD, but I forgot the leader book at home. I should probably be fine just watching the video though. I can write my own questions to ask as I watch or wing it with the book in the morning. It's Tom Long doing the teaching, and he makes it easy.
hey sherev - good to see you!
ReplyDeletewhat adult ed series are you doing? I'm looking for a new one :)
OK, I have 675 not terrible words, and a pretty good idea where I'm headed next, so I'm off to bedtime duities. Wish me well - I've never been good at this part of parenting......
hey sherev - good to see you!
ReplyDeletewhat adult ed series are you doing? I'm looking for a new one :)
OK, I have 675 not terrible words, and a pretty good idea where I'm headed next, so I'm off to bedtime duities. Wish me well - I've never been good at this part of parenting......
I am calling it D-O-N-E. Feeling better about it than I did. Not feeling good about the fact that it's 10:30 and I still need to prep for Sunday School. Been up since 6:00 and my back is killing me from my hard-backed desk chair (wonder if Santa will bring me the cushy chair I've asked for?).
ReplyDeleteBest to the rest of you who are still prepping. I will be working for awhile still but probably won't be back by the preacher party until tomorrow morn. 'Night y'all!
I'm not in love with my sermon for tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteIt's on the short side, feels a bit thin... and starts in a really heavy place. I'm not sure how this "preaching easter in December" will go... the shoot from the stump was just calling to me! I'm worried it's too metaphorical and doesn't touch the ground enough
But it's late, there's some hope in there eventually. And maybe God can fiddle on the heart end of folks...
I think I'm back for the long haul. My team won the game Juniper alluded to (YAY!), then I took a three-hour nap, and now I'm back to actually write. Not a word on paper yet. Plus I remembered I need to come up with a meditation for evening prayer tomorrow night...going to be interesting! I'm doing a W theme and this Sunday is supposed to be on wanting, washing, and warning.
ReplyDeleteMy word verf is "mussh," which is what my brain sort of feels like...
Glad most are finishing up, with a few of the late-night crew still left...we will keep each other company.
HI, I rewrote parts of the sermon, and I THINK I feel better about it.
ReplyDeletebut, not sure.
gonna a take a shower, and read it one more time. wish I could get a little feedback, but I don't want to post it.
well, I'd like to stay and play with you all who are left, but I think I'm going to take my chances, trust the Holy Spirit, and go to bed.
ReplyDeleteYeah, trust the HOly Spirit.
I'm recommending that.
got a little something written that I think is ok - shorter than usual but after my longer-than-usual debacle of a coupla weeks ago, I'm thinking that's actually a very good thing.
ReplyDeleteI really am a total failure at bedtime. Still hollering at my kid to be quiet, turn out the light and go to SLEEP already - must be a sermon in there, somewhere.
Well, I'm off to sleep myself, maybe that will help him settle. Edits and rest of the service will come togheter in the morning. Going with Diane's great advice and trusting in the Spirit.
Blessings all - have a great night!
Well, it's time for me to write. The game I was watching is over, with a less than hoped for ending, but oh well. My new problem is that my husband is too geared up to go to sleep, and he's in my space. I don't write with people in the room. We'll see how this goes.
ReplyDeleteI'm back from the party later than I thought I would be.
ReplyDeleteBut, then again, this is not an unusual time for me to be here! :)
SheRev, semfem, Party on! (as in, I'm glad I'm not the only one still up)
Glad to see you, Vicar. Well, sorta. I mean, if we gotta be here, I'm glad we're together!
ReplyDeleteSheRev, I agree. I hate it when it feels like I'm the only one ... misery loves company??? except I'm not really that miserable yet
ReplyDeleteI totally agree. I mean, I want us all to finish, but it's nice to know you aren't alone.
ReplyDeleteUgh, these candlelighting reflections are a pain in the butt every. single. year.
Hi, Vicar and SheRev :-) I'm in good shape tonight as I'm doing the family service and came up with an easy and perfect approach earlier, but I wanted to stop by the late night party anyway!
ReplyDeleteMay the words flow smoothly and still look good when morning comes; even if they don't, the Spirit will be at work through the heart with which you preach.
Thanks Betsy!
ReplyDeleteMy issue now is not my sermon it's the little one who just can't quite settle. I was just up there with her for 30 minutes. The magic blue suction thingy helped some, but then I tripped on something noisy on my way out of the room so she's awake again. I'm hoping she'll settle back down on her own momentarily, but it's not sounding good at this point.
Hey there Betsy!
ReplyDeleteSheRev - I don't miss typing one handed while holding a child. I hope she settles soon
Oh my...sending sleepy vibes, very specifically for the little one and not you!
ReplyDeleteOK - - I think she's down now for good (again). That only took an hour total.
ReplyDeleteSongbird - I love the phrase "the peace of wild things!"
ReplyDeleteI just hit print for the sermon! yay!
Now for the prayers
Hey, look at that! I'm done!
ReplyDeleteBlessings on your Sunday
Sleep well, Vicar! One down...three (?) of us left...
ReplyDeleteI just finished the candlelighting reflection...on to the sermon...bwah.
Anyone still out there?
ReplyDeleteI'm still here. I have started this sermon 7 or 8 different times, and that was the hard part. I've got it going now and think I'll work just a little bit longer then hit the hay. I'm at about 864 words and trying to keep it to 1200 because of communion and a congregational meeting. I think I can do it if I bring it home now. This sort of shorter (for me) meditation is a discipline! I have to let go of words that I probably hold onto way too tightly. Almost there, so I'll keep going for a little, but head to bed for a couple of hours shortly.
ReplyDeleteYou can do it She Rev! 1200 words would be a usual length sermon for me...but it's always hard to do something other than your usual MO.
ReplyDeleteI'm at 762 words and sort of blindly groping my way towards a goal. I could go for 1000 words since we went a tad long last week.
Starting to droop though, despite diet cherry Pepsi...
P.S. It's probably good that Firefox keeps freezing up periodically...helps keep me off Facebook... :)
ReplyDeleteI just posted a draft, which will probably be pretty much the final thing. It's here although I don't expect any hits at this point in the morning. Shoot. I haven't even read it all the way through yet, but I'm heading to bed. I'll get up in a few hours and read it again and see if it still makes some sort of sense. It's a lot less explanatory (for lack of a better word) than I usually preach, which I like, but I don't know yet if I can communicate well without connecting the dots. I don't know if I trust myself with that style or if it's something I can even pull off. I guess we'll see. I think I like it, but we'll see.
ReplyDeleteNight night.
Just kidding. Now I"m going to sleep for a couple of hours. I read it, added a paragraph, and like it better. It's done.
ReplyDeleteWhew. After a few impromptu naps, I'm finally finished with 1072 words. Not sure if I will get a holy nap, either...but for now, it's good.
ReplyDeleteBlessings on all pondering, preaching, and proclamation today.
good morning, everyone. I'm a little nervous, but I'm just going with it. Maybe when I practice in an hour or so, wham! something will hit.
ReplyDeleteand May that something be the Holy Spirit.
In the Meantime, it's Advent.