I can't believe it's October already. The car I bought 2 months ago has to be registered by Monday... as do any unregistered voters out there, at least in Colorado! :)
It's Friday, which means time to write a sermon, which means I'm procrastinating - but won't let myself do anything else intentionally productive because I'm supposed to be working on the sermon. So working out, taking my car for an emissions test and then going to DMV with the title papers, cleaning the kitchen, getting dressed... these are all on hold while I ponder World Communion Sunday.
I do a lot of my sermon research and preparation online. This week I've been very pleased to find lovely backgrounds for this and the 2 church blogs I manage. I have to check my email every 5 minutes in case a new, earth-shaking message has come in. You never know what crazy stuff someone might have sent me on Facebook, so I monitor that regularly as well. Has anyone else out there reflected on what a colossal waste of time this whole internet thing is? What? They have? Oh, okay.
The thing about preaching every week is that you really come face-to-face with how unoriginal you are, and how everything interesting, insightful, or inspiring has already been said. My saving grace is believing that the Holy Spirit can still work through a limited and unoriginal preacher to bring good news to people in ways that make it both GOOD and NEW. May it be so.
