Day 2 – Celebrating Sunday

I met a Facebook friend, Billy V, today who introduced me to a Seventh Day Adventist mechanic who will be working on my car for the next few days to figure out what went wrong. We went to the Lutheran Church and enjoyed a wonderful liturgy on God’s love for his people Israel and the great rewards that we get from the crumbs of their table. Texts were OT: Isaiah 56:1, 6-8, Epistle: Romans 11:1-2a, 13-15, 28-32 and Gospel: Matthew 15:21-28. Hymns were 611 “Chief of sinners though I be”, 852 “O God of mercy, God of might” and a praise song “By grace, by faith”. We recited the Apostle’s Creed, then took communion and the serviced closed with Hymn 707 “Oh that the Lord would guide my ways”. It was a beautiful service and reminded me of how important it is to come to church to be filled with God’s grace rather than being there to try to give God our worship or give others our fellowship. It was great to just be there to receive.Then I came back to the hotel and tried to make this blog look better and more suited for what I want it to be used. Too bad I don’t know how to do that. Plus I kept distracting myself with frivolities that came into my head like, “What is the Palestinian Authority” or “I wonder what the Liberal Party of Canada is doing these days”. Hopefully after work tomorrow I’ll be able to figure our how to manage my own blog.