Thursday, September 21, 2006

Beautiful Thursday

Man-o-man... today was one of those beautiful days... blue skies, not too hot, nice breeze from the north. It was definitely a nice day for a run... and the old Achilles tendon is slowly getting better.

Didn't get too much done around the house other than the laundry, but I did fix an interesting concoction for supper. We let one of the zucchini grow pretty big before picking it (about 18" or so) and had it in the fridge. I split it length-wise, scooped out all the seeds and pith, stuffed 1/2 with a taco meat-bean-corn mix, put mozzarella cheese in the other half, put the two halves together on a cookie sheet, and baked it in the oven for about an hour. It was yummy... and pretty healthy to boot I think. And... we'll have left-overs for a couple of days. Good thing we both like zucchini.

Tomorrow will be finalize sermon day for me. I've had an outline in my head for a week or so... put it on paper Wednesday... sort of talked through it while I ran today. I just need to make sure I'm prepared enough to not go too long.

Family Circles are coming together well. We'll have at least a couple of new ones and a couple which will focus mostly on ministry this year. One of the new groupings will be a young adult group. We've needed something in that 20-something age (mostly single) range for a long time, and now God seems to have raised up a nucleus of folks to get something going. Virginia and I will mentor the group as they get started and figure out just what they're going to be. Prayers answered on this one... please pray for this new ministry as it forms and grows.

I mentioned earlier that the breeze today was out of the north. Well, as the high pressure north of us shifts to the east, the winds are supposed to shift as well... from the northeast and finally east... over the next two days. As a result, they're declaring a Red Flag Warning starting tonight here in the East Bay. That may mean no trail run Saturday morning if they close the trails. We'll just have to wait and see.
Hope your week ends well. Blessings...

1 comment:

Philip said...

i don't know about you, but without a good run on Saturday, the sermon never sounds as good on sunday. maybe you should just preach on zucchini dishes and how God can make any wretched vegetable a part of a 5-star, chef quality, quisine. Beatitude No. 132 - Blessed are the zucchini, for they shall fill... stomachs.