Today #341

There's always this point when I have read and studied, and *kinda* know what I want to say, but I just can't seem to get started on the sermon... Sometimes it's hard to explain when someone asks, "So what did you do this afternoon?"

"Um... I sat with my fingers on the keyboard and.... Yeah."

So, some things running through my head...

• Jane started back to work today. She's actually been doing the paperwork from home since having her gallbladder removed, but today she starts making food and dealing with customers and employees again. Hopefully someone else is making the dough for this week though. She's not ready to be lifting 50+ pounds of dough out of the mixer yet.
• Not only did Jane have to go to the doctor again yesterday, but Bogey had to go back for his check-up (they use different doctors). The leg medicine is working, but the sore is not completely healed yet. So he still needs to wear the cone on his head and twice daily dopings. And... we saw a new vet while there, and Bogey liked her much better than the guy vet. So I did too. It had previously been suggested that the old dog simply needed to learn new tricks - maybe with the help of a pet psychologist. Um... nothing against counselors and all, but.... Nada. But this new lady vet said we might want to consider putting the little guy on Prozac. I kinda chuckled, wondering if she read my blog and was talking about me; but she said they do this with lots of dogs now. Apparently they get depressed just like people. Well if anybody's gonna have a depressed dog, it's certainly going to be mine!
• Somehow we managed to get both our cars back this past weekend. I wasn't even planning on it, but when the kiddles went off in their own directions, they were each driving their respective cars. Huh.
• I've been reading some interesting "church leadership" crud the past couple days. Today At The Mission talks about Thomas Blackaby's provocative article on pastors being shepherds and not sheep; and the amazing Brant Hanson has an awesome post "Awesomely Awesome Non-Satire Here." I think there's probably a lot of truth spilt between these posts and the respective writings they're dealing with. Low-lifes like me read these things with a salt shaker though.
• I'm ready to skip right to summer. It was supposed to be in the upper forties today and this morning it was snowing and blowing and downright cold. Jane could tell you how many days left until we're leaving the country. Average daily temps there are high of 83 and low of 72. Ahhh. If we just didn't have to drive north to Detroit, and then get in that metal tube to cross the ocean....

Yeah... that didn't work. I still got nothin'. Um, a song anyone? How 'bout "Baby Won't You Follow Me Down"?