Sunday, February 10, 2008

Church

Just got back from church. Great service. The altar space that Dean and I designed looked great, and others told us that they enjoyed it too. Connie Meyers presented a 20-minute powerpoint presentation that traced the history of building the new church. It was *really* well done, and brought tears to many eyes. You could tell that she spent months on it.

Anissa hasn't been feeling well, so I pinched-hit as liturgist. Since we had to cancel Ash Wed. services for weather, Michael had a little sermonette about it at the beginning of the service.

Now we're making final preparations to go on our cruise tomorrow morning. Couple more loads of laundry and we'll be able to pack.

I'm having a tough time deciding which books to take on the cruise...deep and spiritual because I'll finally have the time and space to read them properly, or light and fun because it's a vacation? Hrrmph.
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Anonymous said...

Spideywhomper sez... leave the deep reading for a seemingly endless Kansas winter. In fact, leave the reading behind altogether unless you plan to be a hermit, insomniac, or confined to your cabin with a mysterious illness.

Then again, you might want one book to use as a prop to "read" while lying in a lounge chair on the promenade, while in reality you are scanning the decks for shipboard intrigue and accidentally overhearing conversations in your vicinity. For this, you can probably utilize something borrowed from the ship's library, or an in flight magazine.

I guarantee you'll find that digesting the constant rounds of food and alcohol will give you plenty to process.

Don't confuse a cruise with a spiritual retreat. Cruises are the highest expression of bourgeois consumption and excess and should be celebrated as such, or you are just taking up space on one of these massively polluting pilgrimages!

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