down the road

 I am going down the road for Thanksgiving Weekend. This is a Canadian holiday, traditionally used for closing up the family cottage and having a family dinner, usually with local, preferably homegrown food. I can remember a turkey slowly smoking on the BBQ on a frigid afternoon on a porch at a summer cottage by a lake in the Laurentians. We were blessed.

So until I return, unless I find a computer in the next few days --- be blessed.

worldwide communion

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in Canada. I arrived at this church today prepared to celebrate communion and found the communion table (altar) covered with vegetables and in the middle was a loaf of bread, but there was nothing for communion. At first I thought that even though this was World Wide Communion Sunday I would just carry on, but the loaf of bread silently accused me, so before the sermon I asked if there was any juice in the kitchen - whatever - and someone went and found a jug of lemonade. Then I asked for a tumbler and asked a ten year old boy to assist me and we celebrated. The photo was taken following the service. I don't know why or how the communiction fouled up. This appears to be a disaster prone church - whatever. God is still present desite our goof ups.