The wind howls outside, and it is forecast to keep howling. I've been awake for hours, working on my sermon and looking at maps and radar and weather forecasts, trying to figure out if it's safe to make our way across the mountain. It's been snowing in Bristol, where we're headed, but the forecast calls for no accumulation. We will make the attempt to get to Faith Lutheran in Bristol, where I preach and preside every Sunday.
As always, I send the sermon manuscript ahead of us--that way, if something happens, much of worship can still continue.
There are drawbacks and limitations to this Synod Appointed Minister position--for both me and for the congregation. I can't do much quality pastoral care from a distance. The weather can make it impossible for me to do the main work, the preaching and presiding (and leading Confirmation class) on Sunday mornings--and wintry weather is the culprit, not summer weather.
I know that people who live much further north, say in Minneapolis, would laugh at my weather concerns. A bit of wind, a bit of snow--what is the big deal? But we are still essentially in the U.S. South, where we don't get much wintry weather.
Let me bring this brief blog post to a close and start strategizing a warm outfit for the drive.
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