Postby Kathryn-in-Canada » Wed Dec 27, 2023 10:53 am
Good morning!
I had roughly 8 hours of sleep last night/this morning. Not quite uninterrupted but not bad.
I have done tea and chocolate and too many cookies.
I have started research for my sermon (for this week, arghhh!) and the All Generations Conversation. It turns out this lectionary reading is one we seldom hear at this time of year. It is the Feb 2 reading normally so we hear it when Feb 2 falls on a Sunday (looks at notes: 2003, 2014, 2020, 2025) and I never did find when it falls as Christmas 1 just because the lectionary calendar I was working from only goes back to 2000. My 'hook' in the sermon is an extended Christmas gathering where you see someone who is vaguely familiar but you aren't used to seeing them at Christmas (Simeon and Anna). And then getting to know them a bit better.
But all this is stirred in, somehow, with calendars and the New Year, new beginnings, new commitments, so the All Generations Time starts with focus on calendars. I also wrote out exactly the calculations for Easter.
All this will hopefully form something coherent, healing, and inspirational from what is currently a mushy mess of thoughts about extending/scheduling Advent into the New Year, faithful patience, praying, and the themes of Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love, literally filled into the blank calendars/planners waiting to be filled in.
Tomorrow is our Family Christmas (dh's birthday celebration as well, although that isn't until the 30th), which means writing out food plans to confirm I have all incredients, and I didn't do much house blessing yesterday so there is that to focus on as well. And baking dh's birthday cake, which is due 2 days earlier than expected. That is an extension of the recurring theme of this season, everything is sooner than I think it is.
After church on the 31st, we are driving to Peterborough for NYE, so that is also in the back of my mind, although I can put off action on that until the afternoon of the 30th.
Then there is the list of stuff I wrote down in my planner last week. I guess I should look at that as well!