2ne sunday and first day of sampler

6/11/06

Happy 11 months Robyn and David. It sucks that we are apart for this one, the next one is going to be worse. Today was my second day out at Adamsville parish. Things went much better. I’m still a little uneasy out there, but I have been getting very good feedback from the parishioners, so I must not be doing too badly. I think the sermon went well too because people were making reference to it at the Bible study that I led tonight. That is a whole different story. I had put off finishing my sermon so long that my sermon wasn’t done until Saturday night. So, I used the time after worship to prepare the adult Bible study. This came out so well. I used the story of the good Samaritan to teach some of the basic principles of narrative criticism. I’m super excited about this. It is a very clear area in my life where seminary education shows through. I even have a few ideas about where the Bible study in 2 weeks will head.

Also, this is a day of mourning. I, in my brilliance, managed to kill the fish that Robyn and I have been keeping for a few months now. I started to change the water by letting it slowly drain out of the spout at the bottom. Apparently something distracted me and I never got around to the whole putting the water back in part. So when I went to move the fish across the street to my temporary housing for the summer, I discovered dry dead fish. Yet again I have managed to kill something that lived with me. Someone warn Robyn. Actually, I do feel badly, especially since they were fish that we shared.