I got the readings for Sunday and realized I've already talked about the Gospel with John the Baptist.
I didn't realize that where it ended last Sunday would continue on, so I talked about what came next--this week's Gospel!
So I have to write a sermon without the Gospel.
I always preach on the Gospel.
What a mess.
I'll figure it out.
I hope....
Today the views of this blog passed 500,000!
Thanks to you for reading it.
You made half-a-million happen!
I appreciate it so much....
I watched 3 videos on Youtube about conjoined twins that were separated at the Mayo Clinic.
It was amazing!
These 6 girls (they were all female twins) have great lives and are very close to their sisters--though not as close as they were at birth....
Very moving.
My eyes were wet watching.
Pray for them and all conjoined twins.
And give thanks for hospitals and surgeons.
We all should do that.
The older I get, the more times I see doctors.
I went to my Cancer doctor A. this week.
My Cancer is gone but she keeps seeing me to make sure. I trust her totally. She's also an Episcopalian and goes to a church I know well.
I always let all the people in doctor offices know that I am an Episcopal priest. I don't know for sure that makes them treat me better--but I suspect it does.
Here's how terrific Dr. A. is--because I broke my thumb and cracked my shoulder, she is sending me to have my bone density checked next Wednesday at a practice just down the street from our house.
I never even thought about how dense my bones are and have no idea how they find out.
But if Dr. A. tells me to jump, I jump.
I trust her that much.
Probably more than I trust myself....
Seems it snowed last night.
Lot enough to cause any pain--besides shoveling walks and driveways--which Bern did before I woke up.
But it's cold...so cold...so very cold....
I put on socks--something I haven't done since last March.
That's how cold it is.
The only thing I would hate worse than being cold would be to live in Florida!
Just me talkin'...or, more accurately, writin'....
G. at Trinity told me to write out my sermons...which I often do not.
But my printer is out of ink and I don't know how to get more or how to install it.
I'm in a pickle--whatever that means--and hope to figure it out this week.
The sermon will be about John the Baptist and I don't need a text to do that.
Alas and alack--what to do....?
Thanksgiving is over--but giving thanks is not.
We need to be thankful every day...all the time.
Bern is doing Face Time with our granddaughter. I can hear them down the hall. They do it M-W-F and I'm always thankful.
I'm thankful, after the election, to live in the Very Blue state of CT.
I'm so thankful that Bern and I are married. We met when I was 17 and she was 14. 60 years later we are still together.
I am thankful that I'm an Episcopal priest--I have served amazing congregations and thank all of them for molding me into who I am today.
There is so much more for me to be thankful for--but I'll stop there for today.
My advice to you--be thankful every hour....
