Categories: rusk, holidays, church
Date: 20 February 2010 22:32:51
We were hoping to get away for a few days over half term to spend time with my sister, who teaches and so is limited to school holidays. Ash Wednesday falling in half term meant an even shorter break than planned, but still lovely. We borrowed a cottage from friends and spent a couple of days in the Lake District.
We are now back. Rusk has actually gone to sleep without fuss. Mr F is catching up on stuff we've recorded and I am relaxing with Chopin on the headphones while I finish off my sermon for tomorrow. This particular congregation asked for something more interactive. We'll see whether they still want it after tomorrow! I'm looking forward to finding out how Lent was marked 80 plus years ago in this area.
This is the first time I've deliberately used someone else's sermon as a starting point for mine. Our Lent course includes an Ash Wednesday sermon in the front as an introduction, with the suggestion that you make it your own by adapting it. Useful exercise, although I'm not sure whether the person who wrote the original would recognise what I've come up with. The vicar preached on something else on Wednesday so I've grabbed this for tomorrow instead. Editing is easier than starting from scratch, particularly when there is no pressure to keep it recogniseable. There are bits from the Lent book I'm reading in there as well - the idea that Lent is not something you do alone, that the fast (whatever form it takes) is more meaningful when it is the whole community doing it. If this Lent course is part of the fast for our parishes, then it will work better if more people are doing it. Here's hoping.