AKMA’s Random Thoughts

Sermon Prospect

I know I’m in good shape for the sermon, ’cause last night at Halley’s house party for Howard Dean I asked Halley — or Betsy, it was hard to tell who was using Halley nick at the time — to ask the candidate for some homiletical advice.

Betsy — or so she called herself — answered, and I quote (as best I can), “emphasize moral leadership.”

Now, as it turns out, I hadn’t been planning so to do. I put together the reater part of the sermon today, fleshing out the elements I had composed specifically for this weekend with some pieces from the 2 Christmas sermon from last year about which I’d already blogged (I don’t think that anyone who was in Evanston last year will be in New Haven this year, except Margaret and me). Tomorrow, I work through the whole thing, move bits around, smooth out the seams, and try it out on Margaret (something I don’t ordinarily do, but it seems imperative for this case).

I experienced a wave of panic this afternoon as I realized that I didn’t know where the e-ticket plane reservation was, and it wasn’t helped by the recollection that Margaret might have made the reservation on her computer, which has had its hard drive replaced between the reservation and now. But the macho husband who backed up Margaret’s drive before repairs had replaced the mail file when the computer came back, and eventually I found the message she forwarded to me with the reservations in it in my own archives, so everything’s cool.

Posted by AKMA at December 31, 2003 11:07 PM | TrackBack