Today was today. It had some moments but on the whole I think it missed a bit. However, lets talk about the bits that did work. For myself I thought the tryptich was brilliant. It looks fabulous. I thought the balloons were a good moment of celebration. There was laughter too whcih is the work of the Spirit. And I was talking to someone after the service saying that I thought it was a bit flat but she said that's not what she took from it all, but rather there is clearly life abut the place, it isn't stiff but relaxed and lively. So there was a wee lesson for me at least. It doesn't have to be a perfect performance but just living.
The other lesson is to practice more before hand which is a bit of an oxymoron with what's just been said but persomally I think I have to go through the talks more thoroughly rather than just imagin it all in my head.
However, that's not what this blog is meant to be about. Next week: It's communion and Environment Sunday. An interesting but possible combination especially as it is Trinity Sunday too. Works for me, sort of.
So the reading is Psalm 8 which is amazingly appropriate for all three themes. That's the Psalm that has the line: "What are humans that you are worthy of them". Basically the Psalmist is staring up at the sky and recognising the vastness of the heavens. It's all the more vast now-a-days and therefore all the more wonderful that God still has the big moments for us. Any normal God would be busy away doing stuff somewhere out by Pluto or Beetljuis or the Andromoada galaxy (all pretty close in astronomical terms) to be bothered with us lot. But our God isn't normal and kind of has a huge lens magnifying our tiny blue and green planet to a disproportionate size in amongst the much bigger heavenly spheres. Why does God do that?
So there we go. It's vast. It's collosal. It's humungus. It's totally amazing. And so will Sunday (if I practice a little harder!)
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