Here you see me tonight busilly (notice the moving hands) making candy (turtles). You see here signs of Advent (the wreath) and in back of me on the wall, you see about two thirds of a painting by Barbara Neth..unfortunately you cannot see that it is of Hubert Neth, pulling one of his grandchildren in a wagon. There are pictures of children in my little kitchen. I like that.
I guess I consider this my obligatory Advent baking/candy making picture. Some may remember the "kitchen mess" pictures last year.
Today was one of those days when there were some things that were hard---conversations with pastors over what SPRC and PPRCs are saying about their returning, which often is not sometimes what the pastor wants to hearl I am also facing the fact that I am going to have to be out a week sometime in the next two months for oral surgery---don't worry, I am sure I will be moved to "tell all" or at least more than the reader needs to here, sometime in the future. I also knocked over the "cat shelf" in our small storage room, and flubbed up, but not as badly as usual, the piano arrangement of Angels From The Realms of Glory. And I didn't have any coconut for the Hello Dollies bar cookies. And I found out Curves is closing in Westport. At least now I will have a real excuse for not going there in the mornings. And I couldn't find the rosette iron..okay, I didn't look as hard as I would have if I was really determined to make them this year.
But you know, this has also been one of those days when some things were obvious joys. I was instrumental in getting a scholarship and paid housing for one of our younger clergy and his spouse to go to the Congress on Evangelism. I made Barbara Webb, our office administrator, really laugh (okay, we laugh a lot, but it did happen today). And Caleb, for some reason was in an absolutely breath-taking mood this afternoon when I picked him up for the orthodontist, and simply was honest with me about how he understands himself, his moods, his gifts, right now, which were so insightful---I just wanted to bottle up that hour and a half or so and keep it so that I would always remember who he really is. And I am using a really neat devotional book for Advent with a story today that just broke my heart and instilled the spirit of God there at the same time about a reporter's visit to Hayti and his encounter with a very sick baby girl. And Cana continues to be super supportive and deals with my moods with an accepting, loving, guiding spirit that those closest to her are blest with experiencing. Little things, all the time, she does to make my life a little easier, without being asked.
So, I guess all in all it was an okay Thursday. And the District party is tomorrow night---more than 100 have signed up to come!!!
The metaphors have been few today...but some days, that's just fine.
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