It was my turn this year to be the Missouri D.S. of choice to preach at Saint Paul School of Theology. I guess there have been years when there have been two....anyway, it was a really good experience for me. I was too much "on script" so to speak, but I really enjoyed preaching on the Eli and Samuel text and having some of my student pastors in the service. I wish I had done what I fleetingly thought of yesterday and taken a picture of the congregation from the pulpit. The music was absolutely great today. I especially enjoyed Brad Bryan's musical setting of O Love That Will Not Let Me Go. And Mary Alice Cunningham's quite jazzy solo When We All Get to Heaven as the postlude.
Anyway, not anything really clever to say about today, except I enjoyed it very much. I probably have not preached more than five times over the past year (!?!?) .... and it was an honor to be asked to do so there.
And we received an email from Hubert Neth today saying that he never thought he'd live to witness a charge conference where the DS played a Marty Stuart CD during the meditation. (which I did at his charge conference last Sunday)
And just now, as I walked down the bank of mid century windows on both sides of the hallway to my bedroom, stopping at Cana's bedroom door, speaking through the crack that was open, I said, "Good night...I love you from the top of your head to the tip of your toe." And she replied, without missing a beat "I love you right back"...I knew it was a good day.
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Thanks for the positive comment about the "jazzy solo" at chapel on Wednesday. Could you tell I enjoyed myself!
Also, thanks for being an Eli to so many students - even to those of us from Illinois. (Now if we can only convert you back to the Cubs!)
:-)
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