Thursday, July 20, 2006

Crash


Haven't been here for a while....we were on "vacation" last week. It actually turned into a trip to Ohio to visit my sister because she had a car wreck.

She was t-boned by a truck which ran a red light. Her left arm was nicely bruised and she had at least one broken rib, but they kept her in the hospital for three days because she had a lacerated spleen. She was VERY lucky not to have any bleeding from the spleen.

Friday, July 07, 2006

Preachers and Friends....

On Sunday, we had the pleasure of dear friends visiting us from our last church! It was a blessing to see them and share a meal together after services.

We hadn't spent time with them or even seen them since our move 9 months ago. How wonderful to visit! This is the first time that we have moved close enough to the last appointment that this was really possible--to have folks visit without it being a 10 hour drive! (well, ok, I don't count one church because we were only there a year and there really aren't folks there that would visit us!)

Anyway, at lunch one friend said that she is not going to let herself become friendly with any more preachers--it hurts too much when they leave.

Isn't this a dilemma for us all? How do we form friendships within the congregation? especially us United Methodist who know we will be leaving eventually.....

Monday, July 03, 2006

ears to hear

Rev Hub had some interesting comments after his sermon Sunday....

one said, "It was great to hear an anti-war sermon on the 4th of July"

another said, "So Bush is a bully and the US is goliath?"

but the one who loves President Bush thought it was a great sermon about fear and love

what is interesting is that the first two persons probably know RevHub's personal political views best and they "read into" the sermon things that were not there and not said....

I thought it was a great sermon about "perfect love casting out fear"--the word "war" was not in the sermon --neither was anything about the US or the President.....

isn't it interesting what people hear in sermons that is never said?