Today in church we pondered one of the mysteries of the universe: Did the Pope invent the McDonald Fish Fillet sandwich? There is undoubtedly a connection.
Today we began the series: LENT: It’s More Than Feeling Guilty.
Postcards with that title went out to the community and we did have a visiting couple, so perhaps the cards work! During Lent we will be investigating a variety of spiritual disciplines. We began with Simplicity. One of the church members volunteered to share some of his struggles with this discipline (we have someone signed up for every week). He showed a few pictures from a trip to the Boundary Waters, and observed that it’s not simple to practice simplicity.
I preached, briefly, using Matthew 6. Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
We had communion, and a clergy couple who are members of our church presided. This was nice for them, and nice for me because I actually took communion seated beside my husband. We tried to remember the last time we had the opportunity to do that, maybe 9 years ago?
Actually, folks were a bit quiet this morning. Poolesville had a tragic car accident yesterday – two local 19 year old boys crashed into a telephone pole, one of them is brain dead and on life support. What’s especially sad to me is how utterly ordinary this story is.
Yes, life is fragile. This morning I said the words that belong to the beginning of Lent, more properly to Ash Wednesday: You are dust and to dust you will return.
After church, my husband say, “I have a craving for a McDonald’s fish fillet sandwich” and since I happened to have dollar coupons, we decided it had to be. (We couldn’t remember the last time we had them, maybe 9 years?) We got the sandwiches and ate them as we waited for the ferry to take us across the Potomac.
How was your Sunday?