Eric Bailey's

Being the only healthy person in the house (well my younger son seems to be doing pretty well right now) I have the joy being the one who is doing the work. Luckily for me the work is does not mean that I am slaving at home and all that, instead I am currently pushing myself to try finish a Library project for my wife at her work (while she is at home sick). Yesterday I worked around 7 hours on this (after working my day job with the church). Then I went and played football. I did alright, one touchdown, but we lost. It seems that when you win the aches and pains bring good memories with them, but when you lose, each pain reminds you that you were not quite good enough.

I hope to be done the initial set up of the Library today and then it will just be updating it here and there with the new books that they add to it. Currently there are a lot of new books sitting around too so it is not even done and it need updating!

My sermon went okay yesterday, I tried to add a dimension to it and that went, but I know that if I had just gone with my original idea instead of playing it safe with a sermon on hand, it could hav been far more engaging. I introduced the reading (background etc) and warned people that there would be a question and comment time following the reading, then we wrote comments on an overhead. After that the comments were taken away and so I talked briefly about one (that tied into another) and then referred to one more in the first point of the sermon. I should have done step 2, after getting the comments, organize them into an outline, or a workable format and then address them. Perhaps that could have led to more interaction on those ideas and it would have been a very interesting sermon. Ah well, I will remember and prepare to try again sometime in the future (not this next time because the context and content will be different).