Hello, my name is AKMA. I used to blog here.
Well, I did miss a day, yesterday. My morning run went well; a good pace, back to the ‘very good’ part of the plateau spectrum. Hot breakfast, changed, then to St Helen’s for our annual Wedding Workshop. The Wedding Workshop brings together couples from the parish whom we’ll marry later in the summer, and gives us a chance to walk through with them a lot of the variables among which they’ll be able to choose: Scripture readings, hymns, instrumental music, and clergy. (Some will already have met us and have asked for one or another; some are just meeting us and forming an impression of whom they might request.) After the Workshop, I settled in to extrude a sermon from my already wrung-out brain, and took a much-needed nap.
Today, the day after my ‘day off’, I ran an even better pace, reworked the ending of the sermon, cleaned up, hurried in to get ready before the service, and there we go (or, ‘went’). After the service, I gave one of our brief ‘Spiritual Snacks’ on ‘Inside the Liturgy: Action and Meaning’; it’s part of my effort to gin up interest in serving at the altar). (Don’t tell). After the service and my wee talk, I crossed over to the Parish Centre for a Faith Forum, and then, now, home for a rest.
I’ll paste this morning’s sermon in below the fold.
