conjectural navel gazing; jesus in lint form

this is about nothing and everything

It seemed to me that we were going ’round in circles, with a lot of hand wringing and caveats and personal opinions getting in the way of coming to any conclusions.
- Lainie Petersen

Once again the dreams have come. Last weekend I gave the congregation the assignment of paying attention to their dreams and then to share them with the rest of us. We're putting together the budget for the next program year and the process includes some dreaming and visioning. So, I am trying to take my own homework to heart and listen to my dreams.

Last night an old friend and a former professor both appeared in my dream to help me out. The professor agreed to serve on the search committee for our new administrator and was doing a great job in pulling things together. My friend took me to a restaurant to hear some good Irish music. Now, both scenarios had that usual dreamy surreal quality. The Irish musicians were space aliens and the the professor was doing all of this work in my basement. Ah well, you cannot ask for everything.

To Do List:
1. put together three worship bulletins (Our usual worship orders aren't going to make it this week.)
2. help turn the basement into a tent (One must have a tent for a tent meeting.)
3. rehearse the music for this evening again (The banjo is tuned and ready!)
4. pray
5. work on the sermon

In Other News:
Lainie Petersen is blogging about transparency. She's talking about politics...our government's and others. Transparency is more than candor after you have made a mistake. It is the involvement of all in the process...or at the least the open door policy of sharing what the process is and the willingness to enfold an outsider's comments into your own process. Transparency is difficult and frightening. It's about vulnerability.

Pray for Haiti and the families there who have lost loved ones.

Note: The spelling of Lainie Pertersen's name has been corrected. -en...not -on. Thank you! -Ed.

Posted by tripp at September 5, 2008 06:15 AM