Advent 4

 This Sunday is the last  one before Christmas.

I wrote my sermon on Mary, the mother of Jesus.

She was a simple woman chosen by God for reasons unknown, to give birth to his Eternal Son.

The Gospel was from Luke--when Mary visits Elizabeth and Elizabeth's baby leaps for join in her womb.

That baby was John the Baptist and though they were both fetuses John knew Jesus was there.

So did Elizabeth. She says, "Why is the mother of my Lord visiting me?"

Quite a story.

An amazing one, at that.

Truly amazing....

cold is COLD!

 Sometime during the night on Sunday, our furnace went off.

It was finally fixed by 4 p.m. on Monday--by that time the temperature in our living room was 52 degrees.

As you know from earlier posts, I hate the cold.

Monday was miserable to me.

I stayed in stores some of the day and drove around with my car heater on high.

Finally, by bedtime, it was 68 in the house and all was well.

Cold is COLD!!!

Church went well today...except....

 The readings today in the bulletin were for Advent 2, not Advent 3.

It messed up things a lot.

But we got through it.

The person who did it apologized and my sermon went well enough.

Things like that happen.

Welcome to my world....

Have a good time here.

Rejoice!!!

All three lessons before the Gospel use the word 'rejoice'.

So that's what I'm preaching about tomorrow--"rejoice".

I like my sermon but can't share it with you since, being and idiot about technology, I accidentally erased it from my computer....

Truly and idiot.

But not when preaching about 'rejoice'....

 

What a dope I am....

 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....

YOU DID IT!

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....

 

conjoined twins

 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.