What a weekend

It was an incredibly busy, yet rewarding, weekend. Allow me to reflect 1. First, the week of insane allergy attacks put me a day behind in productivity. I normally write my sermon Thursday morning, then go do some other pastoral tasks like visitation and general information processing. Friday mornings I edit my first draft and…

Allergies – A visual aid

I haven’t posted a comic in a while, so I thought I’d put one up today. Allergy season is not my favorite time of the year. It’s two-plus months of wanting to scratch my eyes out, fighting to stay awake, and being easily agitated by noise. Unfortunately, none of these symptoms is due to the…

Life Storm

Perfect storm of life Allergies and Holy Week Daylight Savings Time Allergy season is upon us, and it couldn’t come at a worse time. During allergy season mental distractions become so acute my body tends to respond to them by either barking out in anger or running into a quite room to rock back and…

Allergies – A Haiku

It’s high-allergy season. Energy is hard to come by and so I write this haiku as a reflection of my current mind-set. I’m kind of sleepy Allergies aren’t any fun My eyes want to close

A-a-a-a-agitation

I suffer with allergies. As such, Spring is a very conflicted time for me. I love seeing the new foliage on the trees and enjoy flowers, but these things which I love cause my body to short-circuit. It’s odd. One of the most intolerable symptoms of my allergy suffering is an increased agitation. My tolerance…

Worship Zombies

Normally on Monday’s I post my sermon manuscript as my blog entry. Today I’m breaking my typical practice for two reasons. First, while the sermon this week was adequate, I didn’t particularly care for it 1. I thought the manuscript, despite several deep edits, lacked flow. It was ok, but not really worth re-sharing. Second,…