Fun web site discovery
Someone left this web site address on my wife’s desk yesterday:  www.jcplayzone.com (I have linked this on the left hand side of my page under my favorite web sites). This web site is designed for children and it’s filled with fun games, crafts, printable coloring pages, recipes, and more.  With all the crap that kids can come across on the Internet it is refreshing to see places where kids can play (and learn) safely.  Check this site out and share it with your kids.  I plan to publish this web site in my bulletin on Sunday.

Fun baccalaureate sermon discovery
I have said this before and I will say it again.  I am always amazed with the whole sermon prep process.  I try to begin the process without an agenda.  If I am faithful to keeping preconceived notions at "home" then something amazing happens in the end — a sermon — a message for God’s people.  God is faithful.  And because of God’s relentless faithfulness, I feel guilty every time I enter the sermon prep process with worries – wondering and fretting over what I will preach (silly boy, it’s not you preaching but God through you).  One of these days I will get that through my thick skull (and heart).

With that being said, the baccalaureate sermon I was asked to give is basically done.  I have some fine tuning to do yet today, but it is done.  My plan is to talk to the seniors about "Living water".  In college (or where ever they are going) they are presented with so many sources of so-called "living water".  These kids are searching for meaning and purpose and often times willing to try anything.  My point to the seniors tonight is to not forget who you are or whose you are through baptism.  Your meaning and purpose in life has been given to you in Jesus Christ — the only "Living water" you will ever need.  Who knows if they will listen to me, but you got to believe someone will…right?

(Maybe not so) fun meal planning discovery
Before you go off and eat something from the frig, make sure your wife (or husband) wasn’t planning on having that later.  For lunch yesterday I had a cheese ravioli Lean Cuisine.  This morning my wife calls me at work and says, "Where’s my cheese ravioli!?!"  I knew right then and there I was in trouble.  Apparently part of my wife’s meal planning for the week included her having that ravioli for lunch today at work.  I guess I missed that memo and I got a feeling my wife will make sure I see that memo in the future.

God bless you as you make fun discoveries of God’s love and faithfulness and remember to "drink in", "bath", "bask" and enjoy the "Living water" of Jesus Christ.  You just can’t go wrong with that.  Amen. -edh-

P.S. And don’t eat your wife’s lunch.