Sunday worship

Yesterday was full with three services and three communions. I did not take it at Brighton since there was only enough for the residents. But I made up for it by taking twice at Vineyard. (hehe) We always take communion in the evenings.

I spoke at Brighton about trusting God for your daily needs. It morphed a little into ways we are tempted to compromise in this world. DW thought it was good and that is high praise. We were both on a high when we got to Vineyard.

We helped with communion at Vineyard. Those highs I told you about probably made us freer to stick our necks out a little bit when we prayed over those who came up for prayer. We always pray a prayer of blessing over them after we take the elements. We got specific in a way that was hopefully prophetic. If not I pray they immediately forgot what was prayered.

My tooth was killing me last night so I really did not get to sleep until about 4 AM. I ended up taking about five aspirin.

I needed to take a morning walk but I got out fairly late at 7 AM. Then I got back late, around 8:30 AM so with cool down and shower we were 20 minutes late to Brighton. We arrived about 9:20. The Jones' expressed perfect faith that we would show up. I wonder how much of that was ironic. But it went smoothly.

After church and lunch at a favorite restaurant I was pretty sleepy. And my tooth was hurting again. But by faith I got up at 4 PM and drove to SJD for choral group practice. It went well. I have learned that room temperature water is best for my tooth. Coffee with aspartame seems to make my tooth hurt. So I drank nothing during our rest time between practice and the service. All they had was coffee and iced water. Both would likely cause my tooth some pain.

I should be using this to eat and drink less. But I'm not really. However Sunday may have been the closest to doing it. I certainly felt hungry a few times. But I may have made up for it at lunch. Yeah I did.

Two things were amazing in the day was how well the anthem we sang fit in with the sermon given by our deacon, GB. I mentioned it to our director JF afterwards and he too had noticed and called it the Holy Spirit's direction. Praise God. I also felt that, at least for me, the sermon by MP in the morning fit in well with thoughts I was having after my talk at Brighton. I felt the Holy Spirit's leading there too.

I decided to come this week on the week of the communion service at Brighton, something I never do. That might have been the Holy Spirit's leading too since I found out after the service that SJ was going to be out of town visiting his mom next week. His wife NJ will give the sermon. It was probably good that we did not confuse the issue by offering to come next week, the week we usually come to help.

So after the day I felt good about all that had happened. Praise God.