conjectural navel gazing; jesus in lint form

so, what about the first day...

Yesterday was brilliant. I unpacked a dozen boxes of books. I enjoyed a visitor from the search committee. They came with brownies and a plant for the office. Lovely. I spent the day trying to make the office presentable. There is still much to do, but it is getting there. I spent some time working on the sermon as well. I am really interested in the passage from the second chapter of Joel that Peter interprets to the skeptical in Acts. There may be a reason Peter uses that passage and I am trying to puzzle iut out.

There is no internet signal in the pastor's study. Well, that seems to be the case. I hear tell that the interim used to bring his laptop downstairs to check his mail. Do I put this issue near the top of the "to do" list? I think I might. We'll see.

This is a picture of the parsonage. It is only a couple of miles from the church. Suburban living will present new challenges for me and Trish. It is that that we are aprehensive per se, it is more that we know it will taking getting used to. Trish has never lived in the suburbs, and I have not lived in the suburbs since I was in Junior High...and that was a good while ago.

I will take some pictures of the inside of the place soon. The church has worked very hard at making sure the place is ready for us to move into in a few days. Yoemen's work, as they say. It won't be quite ready, the basement is getting new carpet. But we'll be able to move in on Tuesday with no trouble even with the incomplete basement. It is lovely. I saw the place yesterday and the new paint ...all the hard work, really shows. Thanks you, all.

Today is Seabury's graduation. Many people will be coming into town...Ref, Nueva, Jane Ellen, The Librarian, and others are popping in. I won't be able to go to graduation, but I hope to see many of these people at a party this afternoon. I was hoping to be at graduation, but Joel and Acts call me. New job. New responsibilities. And Trish's show opens this evening. So, I cannot work on the sermon tonight as I usually might. There are a thousand ABC functions this weekend as well...Here I am making excuses. I so wish I could be at graduation, but I simply can't. Bugger.

Congratulations to all the SWTS folk who graduate today. Huzzah!

Posted by tripp at June 2, 2006 06:08 AM