tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post6540563330976399575..comments2023-11-03T05:46:44.728-04:00Comments on RevGalBlogPals: 11th Hour Preacher Party - Why we do itStephanie Anthony/She Revhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10089531643725874239noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-4995182814928544352010-10-31T09:26:43.589-04:002010-10-31T09:26:43.589-04:00Why must preachers' children run fevers on Sun...Why must preachers' children run fevers on Sunday morning?<br /><br />Hoping everyone else is having a good Sunday morning.esperanzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12508921986071164221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-27881166320057468222010-10-31T08:10:45.462-04:002010-10-31T08:10:45.462-04:00well, I'm tired and I'm nervous, but here ...well, I'm tired and I'm nervous, but here I go! Come, Holy Spirit!<br /><br />Songbird, especially praying for you this weekend.Diane M. Rothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07749136181846671327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-58572955125687644452010-10-31T06:49:55.237-04:002010-10-31T06:49:55.237-04:00Well, it really was a super quiet party. I hope e...Well, it really was a super quiet party. I hope everyone who is preaching or leading worship is well rested and feeling good. I'm up about 30 minutes later than I planned, but with most of my work done, so I'm not worried. I should be finished before everyone else wakes up in the next hour or so. Grace and peace to you all!Stephanie Anthony/She Revhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10089531643725874239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-44323493297639152010-10-31T01:03:45.572-04:002010-10-31T01:03:45.572-04:00More than halfway done, so I'm going to head t...More than halfway done, so I'm going to head to bed here shortly. I don't have too much left to do and my eyes are pretty droopy.Stephanie Anthony/She Revhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10089531643725874239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-3934081839160898002010-10-30T23:42:41.138-04:002010-10-30T23:42:41.138-04:00Gee - - I'm back to a lowkey party! Annie was...Gee - - I'm back to a lowkey party! Annie was great. I lip-synced every song. Miss Hannigan was played by one of the kids' former daycare teachers. Part of the way through Godzilla (3) said, "Why is Ms. Larsen being so mean?"<br /><br />I don't have much written, but a lot in my head (in order). I also don't need as much because I have an interactive piece in the middle. It will take about 5-7 minutes so I have to be pretty succinct. Shouldn't take too long. Nursing Pearl to sleep now, and then I'll get to it.Stephanie Anthony/She Revhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10089531643725874239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-42252374438361191912010-10-30T23:30:15.833-04:002010-10-30T23:30:15.833-04:00And many prayers for Songbird as you deal with the...And many prayers for Songbird as you deal with the loss of a truly great saint. <br />Peace as you take the much needed time off1-4 Gracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05688216101068437927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-41290056750646610712010-10-30T23:25:02.753-04:002010-10-30T23:25:02.753-04:00I remember clergy appreciation from being Baptist....I remember clergy appreciation from being Baptist. Actually, some churches make a big to do over "THE pastor and HIS WIFE>"<br />Yup, in the Octobers that i have been in a church, I had not been "appreciated" as such. <br />However, i do have the joy of drawings like this one and sweet notes that I get "jsut because" which is far better to me. It is nice to be remembered on a special holiday, but better yet to get something "jsut because."1-4 Gracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05688216101068437927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-62473377570440980372010-10-30T23:10:30.657-04:002010-10-30T23:10:30.657-04:00OK, I'm calling it a night. I think I have ev...OK, I'm calling it a night. I think I have everything ready for worship tomorrow. Diaper bags, snacks,and potlucks will have to wait for morning.esperanzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12508921986071164221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-89178247291069504492010-10-30T22:12:02.253-04:002010-10-30T22:12:02.253-04:00hi, back briefly again. kind of bummed because we...hi, back briefly again. kind of bummed because we were going to go to the Y again tonight and it closed early.<br /><br />had an ok service tonight. a little nervous about the Reformation Drama tomorrow. <br /><br />I'm looking forward to having a day off on Monday. first total day off for about three weeks.Diane M. Rothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07749136181846671327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-64806617002818390542010-10-30T21:57:59.284-04:002010-10-30T21:57:59.284-04:00Oops had some laughs not ughsOops had some laughs not ughsmid-life rookiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07477633857058924514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-33822246628150111772010-10-30T21:56:16.961-04:002010-10-30T21:56:16.961-04:00Spent many hours encouraging/ editing as Manboy fi...Spent many hours encouraging/ editing as Manboy finished two college application essay. Actually had some lughs with him over the fact the word bequeathed simply didn't fit in his essay no matter how much he wanted to use it. <br /><br />Small detour to say Texas Rangers won! <br /><br />Blessings to all of you for tomorrow. Lean on the Spirit. I sure will be.mid-life rookiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07477633857058924514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-87126858744810407412010-10-30T20:47:32.016-04:002010-10-30T20:47:32.016-04:00I'm back, potluck dish in the oven for hubby&#...I'm back, potluck dish in the oven for hubby's church tomorrow (hm, if only *someone* had remembered that earlier in the day!). Need to work on the sermon draft, write a prayer, come up with a children's sermon (thanks for the ideas, keep 'em coming), figure out what the girls and I are wearing tomorrow, and all that stuff that happens between "I'm going to bed" and actually doing so.esperanzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12508921986071164221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-81995367536050426622010-10-30T20:43:08.083-04:002010-10-30T20:43:08.083-04:00I didn't actually work on anything that I thou...I didn't actually work on anything that I thought I would. But that's actually okay.<br /><br />I almost forgot the Halloween thing at church tonight but remembered in plenty of time. <br /><br />I'm going to watch the rest of the World Series game and then go to bed.<br /><br />RevNightOwls -Y'all will have to suffer along without me tonight. See you next week.<br /><br />Blessings on your SundayThe Vicar of Hogsmeadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01484138554317024346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-51631833531060543722010-10-30T20:20:45.884-04:002010-10-30T20:20:45.884-04:00I am busily making my costume for the Reformation ...I am busily making my costume for the Reformation Day Costume Contest (I am going as "sola scriptura," with Bible verses written on an old sheet tunic), but wanted to share the Reformation Day children's sermon I posted on my long-neglected, really-am-going-to-keep-up-with-it-this-time blog. Here you go: http://www.beyondcottonballsheep.com/?p=346Liddyhttp://www.beyondcottonballsheep.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-79404448158180438232010-10-30T19:45:20.578-04:002010-10-30T19:45:20.578-04:00Here's a last minute All Saint's children&...Here's a last minute All Saint's children's idea I'm using. I took 10 minutes and made up a quick scavenger hunt form for the kids to "Find a saint who....was baptized here...plays a musical instrument...has taught you something...has blue eyes...etc." Will hand them out and ask them to fill them in during fellowship time after church. Considering prizes to sweeten the deal....Queen Mumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18291567901639078908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-85056124725300597392010-10-30T19:38:14.566-04:002010-10-30T19:38:14.566-04:00I'm sorry for you, Gord. I understand those f...I'm sorry for you, Gord. I understand those feelings or at least how I felt when I experienced similar losses from afar.<br /><br />Sounds lie one of those prayers that seems easy in theory, but is harder when it comes time to do. Good luck, LC. A theme of the movement of the spirit in the church/history, in the lives of young people, and in the lives of those who have shared their faith with the rest of us might be a place to go.<br /><br />Well, it's been a quiet party, and I apologize for being such an absentee hostess. I'm about to head out again. I'm taking my "big" kids to see Annie. I'll be back for the late night party.Stephanie Anthony/She Revhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10089531643725874239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-70022003595598374392010-10-30T19:35:35.473-04:002010-10-30T19:35:35.473-04:00I'm wracking my brains trying to write Prayers...I'm wracking my brains trying to write Prayers of the Church that encapsulate Reformation Sunday, All Saints' Day and Confirmation. My head is just not in the game. Ugh.<br /><br />Lots of leftover game-day chicken wings here -- peanut/ginger, Parmesan and beer/chipotle. MSU lost; my appetite is gone, LOL...have at 'em!LutheranChikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02685566332651377907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-39189331726110084882010-10-30T19:26:27.916-04:002010-10-30T19:26:27.916-04:00Well, 4 months since the move and we are now up to...Well, 4 months since the move and we are now up to 2 deaths I wish I had been there for. One was a month ago, 1 woman a few months shrot of her centenary, this week teh husband of the BOard chair died.<br /><br />Wasn't ready for how hard it would be to hear these things and not be there....Gordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03767921257861340046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-85414833536071454002010-10-30T16:41:05.045-04:002010-10-30T16:41:05.045-04:00So sorry to start this party and then just ditch i...So sorry to start this party and then just ditch it! We had a Trick or Trunk at church afternoon so my morning was occupied with building my trunk's decoration, and then the afternoon was spent handing out candy. Now I'm praying the baby will fall asleep like the big kids have so I can get some writing done. I told my husband this one would be done before I took the big kids to see Annie tonight at the local theater. Nothing much written yet, but I got my "way in" idea while listening to the book "The Help" on my iPod this morning.<br /><br />Prayers for those in need of prayers, especially Songbird. I saw that note last night late, and I know this must be incredibly hard for you.<br /><br />mid-life rookie, I'm glad it could help!!!<br /><br />Anyone need anything else? That avocado dip idea just sent me upstairs to where I have some guacamole in the fridge. Yum!!!<br /><br />bumsista - - hee heeStephanie Anthony/She Revhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10089531643725874239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-90533062965330419732010-10-30T16:19:24.359-04:002010-10-30T16:19:24.359-04:00Peace to you Songbird, and others wrestling with g...Peace to you Songbird, and others wrestling with grief of the dog, or other saints, variety. <br /><br />Esperanza, I am doing a similar stream of consciousness from Ephesians on "saints." So far it's mostly stream, with not much consciousness. And I'm on page 5. And sort of just got to the text. Oops.<br /><br />But the pumpkin is carved!<br /><br />I have homemade avocado dip to share. But you'll need your own tortilla chips 'cause we are out.<br /><br />My word verification says "bumsista."Queen Mumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18291567901639078908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-49766784164967960072010-10-30T16:04:01.240-04:002010-10-30T16:04:01.240-04:00I'm doing what I don't like to do tomorrow...I'm doing what I don't like to do tomorrow, and this time I mean it: I'm going to my files. <br />We had to put our dog, Sam, to sleep yesterday, and I am wrecked. So a favorite old sermon about Zacchaeus makes sense. I made some adjustments to it earlier in the week, knowing this was coming. <br />After church there is a party for one of our members who is turning 100 years old, then I am taking off for a couple of days to visit a friend and get away from the dog-empty house.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08235049965406944684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-69156209923264186682010-10-30T15:54:46.272-04:002010-10-30T15:54:46.272-04:00back briefly, after:
1. holding a bible class fo...back briefly, after:<br /><br />1. holding a bible class for a few third graders and their parents.<br />2. having a short service for "comforting the bereaved" for a family here at church.<br />3. calling a bunch of people about worship stuff<br />4. practicing the saturday version of my sermon once<br />5. rehearsing the tomorrow version with a few of the participants.<br /><br />will be back again.Diane M. Rothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07749136181846671327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-26221829706239533902010-10-30T15:32:12.580-04:002010-10-30T15:32:12.580-04:00I have written/rewritten tomorrow's sermon eve...I have written/rewritten tomorrow's sermon every day this week, in part because this has been a week of listening to so many people in more than one venue from lectures to one on one conversations. I began angry and have ended up more at the end of the sermon than at the beginning.<br /><br />The last set of lectures I heard were on atonement and I began to think of Jesus taking Zaccheus' place in/on the tree so that no one ever has to climb the tree again to see him, to be invited to dinner and/or to be made whole.<br /><br />I like the idea that Zaccheus had already repented and that is why he is so anxious to see Jesus. That may well be close to the beginning of my sermon. Thanks!Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04722745745959393813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-27516282704038618112010-10-30T14:41:00.634-04:002010-10-30T14:41:00.634-04:00She Rev your words were just what I needed this mo...She Rev your words were just what I needed this morning as I continue to struggle with the blues from an unknown origin. I couldn't get myself off dead center to write anything until about 2 hours ago when I read your post. I finally went back to a sermon I preached 4 years ago on that same passage and was able to use about half of it. I'm actually finished now!<br /><br />As usual I'm way out in left field from the rest of you. I'm preaching on our membership vows for a few weeks. This week is service. The scripture is Mark 1: 29-31 the healing of Peter's m-i-l and her response in service. I'm doing All Saints next Sunday and preaching on witness.<br /><br />So now it's past lunchtime, but we are just having lunch. Tuna anyone?mid-life rookiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07477633857058924514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14710344.post-22369373531939122972010-10-30T14:25:04.840-04:002010-10-30T14:25:04.840-04:00Love the note SheRev! I have been out of the game...Love the note SheRev! I have been out of the game the past two weekends and so my sermon has been stirring in the pot for over a week. I am not sure it is so fresh anymore, but I am going to preach it anyway since nothing better has come along. Went on an Emmaus walk this past weekend and then the annual retreat/conference for the Order of St. Luke this week (speaker was Ruth Duck! Yeah!). Great times making new friends and reconnecting with old ones but not so much thinking about the texts.<br />I am going with Habakkuk and Zaccheus climbing up high to find God, and how sometimes we are called to climb up high for those who can't and call out to God to listen. Talking a lot about bullying since the suicides of a few weeks ago have greatly affected me, especially with three daughters headed for adolescence in the next 5 years. Hoping it all hangs together.<br />We don't have much here to eat but I'll share the other half of my can of lentil soup and some hummus and pita for anyone who's interested!<br />Praying for SB and all who lost pets this week, it is so hard.MumPastorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02027947521261794194noreply@blogger.com