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<\/a><\/div>\nHere I am\u2026<\/p>\n
It\u2019s early Christmas morning. I\u2019m sipping my coffee and checking emails.<\/p>\n
Last night was a blast. The early \u201cfamily service\u201d was wonderful. One of the younger ones broke away from her family when the children\u2019s choir was singing, toddled her way up to the platform, climbed up and stood with the kids singing. Soon to be followed by a still younger child. I think if it weren\u2019t so near the end of the song we would soon have had all the kids joining in. Woulda been great.<\/p>\n
About two hundred fifty adults and children. <\/p>\n
The \u201cEleven o\u2019clock at Nine\u201d (The adult choir explained quite simply I could have an eleven o\u2019clock service or I could have a choir) was perhaps the most magnificent service I\u2019ve ever been a part of. A delicate blending of the tradition itself, featuring an only lightly tampered with rendering of Luke\u2019s story together with more traditional Unitarian Universalist comments. \u201cEvery night a child is born is a holy night.\u201d Totally true.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m mildly anxious about my homily delivered within the midst of the congregation without notes. On the way home my spouse said it could have been interpreted as a caution to the glib and intelligent and overly educated that they\/we miss something when we over anyalize. Or, she said, it could have been heard as saying its good to be intelligent and highly educated\u2026<\/p>\n
Sigh\u2026 The dangers of not having a text\u2026<\/p>\n
Fortunately the music, oh my goodness, the music must have carried the day, or rather late evening.<\/p>\n
Pushing hard on four hundred folk\u2026 <\/p>\n
And now I\u2019m here. Its an all adult household so no rushing about overly early to get the packages torn open.<\/p>\n
That lovely coffee. And I hear a whisper from the kitchen saying make yourself another cuppa\u2026<\/p>\n
Later opening presents.<\/p>\n
And I think I\u2019ll make pancakes\u2026<\/p>\n