Every morning I make breakfast for Landon and Logan. Yeah, I know...I am incredible father! ;-) I am an early riser anyway and I don't mind cooking breakfast (that was my job in the cafeteria in college.) And it also gives me some time to talk about God with them and get their day going on a spiritual note. Yeah, I know...I am incredibly spiritual too! (No I started this because I realized I had been dropping the ball as my sons' spiritual leader!) Today we had ham and cheese omelets with orange juice and man were they were good!
But I have discovered that there is only so much you can do with eggs in 20 minutes for a good, un-bland breakfast. One thing is certain: unless you are 'Rocky' you do something with eggs other than serve them raw. They get baked, boiled, poached, or fried in some way or another; but you always do something with them.
Last week we got eggs before Easter. In our mind the service on 3/18 did not go well (although some said they loved it...go figure?) The sound wasn't just right, the musicians struggled, the computer did what computers often do, and I of course laid an egg in the message. But the good thing about our team was we did something with those eggs...we just didn't leave them raw. Extra work went into every area of the service. We prayed harder and worked harder. And it showed. What a great service we had Sunday. Those were some good omelets!
An old saying about preparing to serve God is that we should work like it all depends on us and pray like it all depends on God. Thanks to everyone who makes it happen each week and works like it all depends on them and prays like it all depends on God. More and more people are coming each week and some of them are coming to Christ.
Did you know that since January began we have 13 new families and about 36 new people! We are doing well and we have a good two months of growing time ahead of us in April and May.
We may have some Sunday services (or children's events, small groups, student programs, etc.) where we lay some eggs. Humans will be humans. We should strive for excellence but if we get eggselence (that was bad, I'm sorry) lets learn from it and keep moving forward. Everyone makes mistakes but not everyone learns from them. Thanks for everyone's hard work...I loved the omelets!
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Hope we can keep hold of a few of those new people long enough to get them hooked on us (and the Lord, of course).
I have always enjoyed making breakfast for my son in the morning before school. I try a wide variety of foods over the course of a week to keep him from getting bored with breakfast. He wouldn't complain even if he was bored with it because he enjoys that time together as much as I.
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