Sunday June 28, 2009
Today was my last sermon day. I was nervous as ever about getting up to speak. Usually that is what happens, but God always gives me the strength that I need. When I finished my sermon and after the last song a man – Mark Hubbard- with tears in his eyes came up to me and gave me this big long hug. It felt great to get a hug because I hadn’t had one for a long while. When he pulled away he told me that he was really touched by my sermon and that he thinks I will make a great preacher someday. It made me feel really good to hear that kind of feedback.
My sermon was on touching the lives of others through physical touch, through our actions, and through our words, based on the scripture of Jesus healing the hemorrhaging woman and Jesus bringing back to life Jarius’ daughter.
After first service I overheard some members talking about how good they thought the service was and how good the preacher did. Many many people came up to me and told me how good I did how they are happy for me to be there. I was all smiles all day! So many people wanted to talk to me that I didn’t get to second service right when it started. It was all good though!
My second service preaching went relatively well. I didn’t feel like I was getting a lot of energetic feedback from the congregation as I was preaching, but they all laughed at the right moments!
I came home and had chicken and rice for lunch. I got so full! For dessert we had Florentines. I am really hoping that I can find that recipe somewhere and make it when I get home. I would describe it as like trail mix in cookie form.
After lunch I worked on my personal pictures and also pictures for the time capsule. After we got home today, Rosemary pushed the button for the garage to go down. Jeff was still in the garage and put his hand up to stop the door. The door didn’t stop but got bent up on a shelf they had in the garage. It was really bad looking, but a bit humorous at the same time! After lunch he got it back on its track.
I am reading a new book called Next Door Daddy. I don’t know if I have mentioned that or not, but I read that the rest of the afternoon. I wasn’t hungry so I told Rosemary that I would have dinner after church. Dinner was baked beans on toast. It’s a very interesting concept, and I ate it, well… after church I did.
WE went to church and had a lovely service. It got done in 50 minutes which is unusual. There were about 22 people there. We came back home and I had dinner. We then watched Miss Marple. It’s a mystery detective story. That lasted until 10PM. Tomorrow is another work day. When I think about it, its actually my last Monday to work! I will be in the office on Monday and Tuesday of this week and Monday Tuesday and Thursday of next week. Then I’ll be home. So you won’t see a lot on my blog these next two weeks, but I’ll make sure and post them when I get a chance!
What is the Florentine? Have you bought a cook book yet?
ReplyDeleteIt's nice when people take the time to tell you what a good job you've done. That doesn't always happen and I appreciate their effort.
Maybe you can give dad and mom a break one week and give the sermon at church. That would be great. Ellen