weekend doings

Well, let me just mention the Saturday soccer (futbol) tournament sponsored by our church. We had a lot of kids and young adults but few parents. I think most everyone there was from the church.

I played in three games on Saturday. Fortunately they were only 20 minutes each. I did not play terribly well. I tried to stick to one position. I played goal in the last game at least partially because I was so bad at everything else. But as a goalie I wasn't too bad. I was pretty good as a goal kicker if I do say so myself. The field was smaller, that helped.

Well anyway on Sunday I was involved with three services, first at Brighton I helped with communion and gave a sermon. The Joneses are great. Nancy comes in after me and does a shorter homily. Sam leads worship and does devotional thoughts between songs. They are wonderful. Anyway we all do it together. Barbara closed with a benediction. We just come once a month to support the Joneses.

We went to the late service at Vineyard. DW and I helped with communion there as well. I was blessed that a family that was serving communion as well came to be with us for communion after they finished. HF in his sermon spoke on our spiritual bodies in heaven.

DW went to LW. I heard it was good.

I sang in the evening choral group "Celebration" (as usual) at St. John the Divine in the evening. All of the paid singers must have had other commitments at school. There were five full time singers. Yes the instrumentalists also sing when they can. There was only one woman. We have a man who easily can do the alto part so he pitched in and did. As usual "we has the bases covered". So said JF in the break room before service. I think even with the small number of people the special anthem we sang at offertory went very well. It was nice to have Richard back playing bass. He hopes to be more regular.

We had the new priest for the first time. He has a brusque sermon style. Can I say that? He was honest, no softening the punches for him. Today was the celebration of All Saints day.

Oh yes. I've pretty much given up on the Texans. Sad. I will not watch them but I can listen to them. Yes RN I "can" watch them, I am not blind. But for emotional reasons I choose not to. I guess I am not a fanatic. I am a fair weather fan.

But I'm also not one who will call for the firing of the coach either. It's not all his fault. So I think I will avoid sports talk shows too. That's what the sports talk shows will all be about this week.

What does that leave me on the radio? I tried to listen to some FM music stations this morning but most of them have "talk" too and that is even worse that sports talk. So I'm at an impasse. I don't think I want silence. I guess I can plug in my ipod.