I could've waited 'til the first.....
Today is the day.
Despite being laid low by a sudden onset of "the common cold" (which should be called "the common suck" because it does!) I had a great Sunday! We celebrated Communion and had an All-Saints Sunday worship gathering. So, rather than my usual job of telling the stories, I got to hear several! It reiterated to me the recen revelation that, in many ways, we followers of Christ are the Third Testament of the Bible. We are the living stories and examples, fluid and unbound from the chains of page and word. Every story I heard Sunday morning was worthy of a Sunday School lesson and I am grateful that God continues to speak to me through the people I supposedly lead.
We followed up this joy by hanging out at Detania and Kelly's place to celebrate the anticipated coming of Olivia Jewel Nix. She won't be here for a few months but we threw her a party anyway. There was food, fun, football, and a bouncy castle for the kids. Lot's of presents for Olivia and many relationships renewed, restored or just enjoyed. I talked to my friend Randy, who has been an African-American minister in a white church for a few years, about being black, because I think I would just be angry at everyone if I were black, my views on the desperate continuance of institutional racism are well known. He told me that it just wasn't worth wasting the energy by being angry and bitter. He's better than me at being Jesus in this area, so I listened and learned (I hope). It was a good day.
Capped the evening off by watching the Cowboys take down the Panthers with some of the guys from my church. Built some new relationships.
One of my friends decided to become a disciple of Jesus this last week. Pretty cool. His story not mine. Had a few solid visitors Sunday also.
Despite being laid low by a sudden onset of "the common cold" (which should be called "the common suck" because it does!) I had a great Sunday! We celebrated Communion and had an All-Saints Sunday worship gathering. So, rather than my usual job of telling the stories, I got to hear several! It reiterated to me the recen revelation that, in many ways, we followers of Christ are the Third Testament of the Bible. We are the living stories and examples, fluid and unbound from the chains of page and word. Every story I heard Sunday morning was worthy of a Sunday School lesson and I am grateful that God continues to speak to me through the people I supposedly lead.
We followed up this joy by hanging out at Detania and Kelly's place to celebrate the anticipated coming of Olivia Jewel Nix. She won't be here for a few months but we threw her a party anyway. There was food, fun, football, and a bouncy castle for the kids. Lot's of presents for Olivia and many relationships renewed, restored or just enjoyed. I talked to my friend Randy, who has been an African-American minister in a white church for a few years, about being black, because I think I would just be angry at everyone if I were black, my views on the desperate continuance of institutional racism are well known. He told me that it just wasn't worth wasting the energy by being angry and bitter. He's better than me at being Jesus in this area, so I listened and learned (I hope). It was a good day.
Capped the evening off by watching the Cowboys take down the Panthers with some of the guys from my church. Built some new relationships.
One of my friends decided to become a disciple of Jesus this last week. Pretty cool. His story not mine. Had a few solid visitors Sunday also.
posted by Jason Jones | 11:58 AM
2 Comments:
I really liked the "All Saints Day" Sunday thing. It was cool to hear the stories. Thanks for letting us share and be blessed by others.
Dude! Ya'll celebrated All Saints Day? It's official...you're Catholic. Admit it.
I've been reading a little about the origins of Halloween. I used to think that people who didn't celebrate halloween were just religious snobs, but they actually have some very legitimate reasons.
Anwayz, that's off topic.
Check this out:
All Saints Day
All Saints Evening
All Hallows Evening (hallow meaning holy)
All Hallows Ee'n
Halloween
So our modern name for the pagan holiday actually comes from a Christian holiday. Isn't that weird? Sweet stuff.
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