It is rainy with rumbles of thunder, 54 degrees before sunrise, and this temp will be our high for the day, although temperatures will not really tumble until overnight. I don't have tons of time to write, so let me just collect a few thoughts.
--Last week, I started Confirmation class with the three youth who are in middle school at Faith Lutheran in Bristol, TN. But because we made Valentines to talk about God's love, we opened it to everyone. I made some salient points about love and how God loves us no matter what. The youth enjoyed making Valentines. I do realize that they may remember the Valentines making more than the message. But since it's a message I return to often in the youth sermon, hopefully they will remember.
--It is strange thinking of Confirmation, what I hope to teach, what really feels important. I worry about the next person coming in as we are midway through the process and deciding that I've done a bad job. I don't care what that person thinks of me, but I don't want the youth to be punished in any way.
--Yesterday I went out for a walk, but the very light mist turned into drenching rain, so I came home. We relaxed and made clam chowder, and I spent the afternoon working on my sermon, which you can read in this blog post. It will be a few weeks of going back and forth across the mountain, with a fish fry on Friday, and Ash Wednesday in 10 days, plus a trip to Williamsburg.
--I got all my grading done this week, and for one brief day I was caught up. I am feeling that "I will never get everything done that I need to do" feeling. I need to get my application together for summer CPE. It is the kind of thing where I wonder if I already have some of that kind of "tell your life story" kind of writing in my files or if it would just be easier to write it new. The prompts are just different enough to make me think I'll just buckle down and write it new.
--I am still capturing poem ideas and getting them started, although in the past week, I have been less likely to them completed.
--Every so often I go to the realtor.com site to see what's for sale in my old neighborhood in south Florida. The house across the street from ours was for sale, and I didn't really recognize my house in the picture of the street. I went to Google Maps, and I discovered that all the beautiful gumbo limbo trees were taken out of the front yard. It's now a very sterile front yard with just 2 bushes. Sadness!
--I need to start two lists. One will tell all the things we did in confirmation and keep a record of attendance. The other will tell all the things I've done at Spartanburg Methodist College for next year's performance review.
Well, let me bring this to a close, so that we can get on the rainy road to Faith Lutheran in Bristol. At least it's not icy!
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