I was really happy to be able to get to church on Sunday morning. Just to be in that space with all those other people who made the effort to get up and show up. So being in the company of a few good friends and hundreds of total strangers, believers all, was a real treat, and the praise music is always appropriately chosen to put us in the right frame of mind for the topic of the message each week. And always great, like being the warm up band for God.
Plus I think I might have heard the Best Ever sermon. He has been preaching since the first of the year in a general sense on the abundance we have in our lives, and how we should be willing to pass on the gifts that are ours due to the abounding generosity of God. A really unusual backdrop in the sanctuary space, up on the stage, behind the musicians: hundreds and hundreds of weathered boards that were salvaged from old wooden pallets. Put together to cover the back of the space in a neat, tidy, orderly manner, but very rustic. Giving the effect of something really old, and historic... even though the building is only about three years old, and fashioned in a very commercial/industrial-type style.
I may not have this quote spot-on, as I was writing in a hurry, and some of my scribblings are not particularly legible. (I should be able to read writing that looks like tangled vines...) It's from C.S. Lewis: "The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven, the worst of life on earth is a glimpse of Hell. For Christians, this present life is the closest they will come to Hell, for unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven."
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