Tonight & Time Change

For someone who is a bit of a nightowl and thus not the best morning person, I (like most people I suppose) am not a big fan of the "Spring Ahead" time change.

In case I happened to forget altogether, I changed all my clocks a while ago. It's weird to see one time on the computer and cell phone that change automatically and another on my watch and house clocks. It was a bit of a shock to see how "late" it is.

I took some motrin for the dull headache and shoulder tension I had. Now I'm figuring out what next. It's getting so late that the "nap" I'd hoped for earlier is probably not wise. Best to stay up a bit longer, and then maybe early to bed (and early to rise if things need to be done in the morning).

Still wrestling with my sermon... is it about identity or about the cross? It seems like there should be a way to link them but I haven't figured out a way that really gels yet, so maybe better to just do one idea. One way to link them might be something like we follow Christ & bear the cross because of our identity as disciples, our "naming" as Christian. (maybe something about the relationships or respsonsibilities that are tied up in an identity???)

Since we're (I'm) chanting the Great Litany tomorrow and that will add time onto the service I'm thinking I need to go for a shorter sermon. So part of me thinks I should come up with a reflection on the different ways we might think about and or approach the cross in our lenten journey, using much of what I summarized from the bishops, and some of what I jotted down in my sermon prep on Thursday. One would think that would be relatively easy. But I also had a lot of energy and ideas around the name & identity thing. The only thing is... lots of thoughts and observations, but what would be my main point? What's the logical progression with that besides that God changes Abram and Sarai's names, and we too have new identities. What's easy (if anything) about that? What's harder?

Since I have lots of ideas, I just need to pick a direction, decide a logical order, and consolidate, I'm putting sermon prep on hold for a bit.

I was going to see if I could just non-perfectionistically, in "quick & dirty" fashion throw together the pieces I have that need to go into the newsletter and print something out to go copy for the morning.

I'm also deciding if I will make fresh bread for tomorrow. I don't *have* to. I have some from last week that has been refrigerated that should be fine. If it's not, we have hosts. As much as I'd like to have real bread each week in Lent, I didn't publicize that we would. So if it comes down to staying up late, or baking, I ought to skip baking... as much as I enjoy baking. But my recipe only takes about an hour from start to finish, so if things all fall together, bread may still be do-able. We'll see.

I also need to look back over the discussion questions for our Bible study in the morning. They are on the OT reading, and they focus around covenant.

That's where I'm at. Better run or nothing will get done!