not a busy a day but a bitty one.
Still trying to get down to writing a sermon.
This is a frustrating process as I know only too well that I work best when I am up against a deadline but I really admire the people who can get their best out in a planned andorganised way. I usually find that my best is produced in a squeeze - so that I never really have the time to finish it properly or to polish it.
And sermons. Out here between the worlds we are miles and miles away from the mega-churches of the US - but sermons take as much time whether you are preaching to ten or ten thousand - well, not quite as much perhaps...
But you have still got to do the communicating - and imagining. Preaching is not only about exegeting the text - you have to exegete the congregation as well. But sermons to only a few are much more imtimate affairs - and you can tailor them to the congregation most of whom you will know well.
And the man came with more office furniture - and people needed colloecting - and lunch was to cook and so on and so forth...
So I'd better get back to it.