Earnin’ Points?
Sunday, 11. May 2008It has been a fairly low key weekend here in Lake Gonebelow. I’ve been trying to mind my P’s and Q’s. I’ve done most of the housework, cooking, etc. Last night we had country sausage sandwiches with onions and peppers, fresh asparagus, corn on the cob, with a cannoli and teaberry ice cream for dessert. This morning we had pancakes at her request. For lunch we had shrimp cocktail, garden salad, barbecued pork chops, pasta, and fresh strawberry pie for dessert. I bought a bouquet of flowers. I’ve done the dishes.
I’m either earning pass points (for what, I have no clue) or I’m building my resume for the man of my dreams.
Yesterday I planted the trees from the first part of my order from the Arbor Day folks: pink dogwood, Stewart cherry, mock orange, and (a freebie) red maple. There are white dogwoods and flowering crabapples on order.
My desktop is back in order after the Win XP SP3 debacle of earlier this week. I restored to last Sunday’s bit-image backup. Make weekly back up folks!!! And bit-image backups make for relatively pain free restores!!
This morning I was the liturgist (”assisting minister”, in the current terminology of the denomination). It was, of course, Mother’s Day as well as the Festival of Pentecost today. Liturgists are supplied “default prayers” for the Prayer of the Church (main prayer, usually litany in style), but they are free to add their own. Among them today was one already written as a thanksgiving for mothers, but I also added this prayer of my own (after the style of the others):
“O God, holy parent, you who have gathered us together in your one holy family, grant your blessing on all families, in all the variations in which you have created them. Give us the leading of your Spirit to recognize in families as in all things, the ‘varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit’*. God of Life…” [C: Hear our prayer.]
I’ll leave it to the Spirit to interpret for them what I meant.
* * *
That’s a wrap.
Sending HUGS to all!
*a reference to the Second Lesson of the day from I Corinthians 12.
the sausage sandwich things sounds good.
My the Spirit guide you this week.
Great prayer!!
When you are finished at your house, you can come and clean up Nick and my apartment!!
Did your sons call to wish their mother a “Happy Day”?
All that food sounds good. If I ate all of what you described, surely my elastic sweatpants would remind me of how they’re my “best friend”!
Teaberry ice cream sounds intriguing. Is it commercial or home made? Teaberries, at least where I grew up, are the fruit of wintergreren plants and have a very strong wintergreen flavor. Same thing here, or something else?
Boy, just reading this makes me hungry! Will you be my husband? A good cook and yardwork, too? Sounds like a dream man to me. Yardwork to me is walking between my car and the front door.
Nice prayer, mister!
I definitely saw some interpretation there. A very bold prayer on your part! That will be quite a resume for the “man of your dreams!”
FYI… if you don’t find the perfect man, you can come bunk at my house anytime, if I get all that great food and cleaning!
I like that last prayer. Nicely worded.
Keep earning those pass points and then you can come to NYC to visit me.
I agree, that prayer was interesting! Did you get any comments from the congregation after the service?
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