Digging in the Word Mines

Well, it’s back to sermon writing after two weeks off from the job. Well, not off from “the” job, ministry. But, the last two worship services did not include my holding forth from the great pulpit.

I have a good title.

I know where it needs to go.

Even did a little advance reading…

And now I’m launched into the process. Which is to avoid putting words to paper, well, pixels to screen, for as long as possible. I’m fascinated by the titles of the books surrounding me, or at least the way the colors and texts play against each other in a lovely pattern… Oh my, the fan needs cleaning.

And then a mad dash. Ten, fifteen, my goodness, twenty words are down!

Then, I find a desperate need to research the word “antidisestablishmentarianism.”

Ah! Two more sentences.

And my goodness look at how the snow piles up outside the window…

When I stand back from the process it makes me wonder how I actually end up hitting the deadline…

So far, fortunately, for about nineteen years, I have…