This week so far

Here's a few odds and ends for this week so far.

On the big issue of our home purchase, we're just waiting for things beyond our control. The property appraisal will be happening this coming Sunday. As far as I know, that is the one remaining major item. The other outstanding item, property insurance, is dependent on the appraisal. Our rate lock expires on July 5, so we have to close on the purchase by then. Here's hoping and praying that will indeed happen.

On Monday I did some prepatory work on a sermon for this Sabbath on John 5:1-19. On Tuesday I realized that this would work better for next Sabbath. The theme is related to freedom, and next Sabbath being the one right before the U.S. Independence Day holiday, the sermon I think would work better then.

So Tuesday I went to the secondary (occasional) series that I started on a different look at the book of Daniel. I spoke on Daniel chapter 1 a few months ago. This Sabbath would be a perfect time to pick up Daniel chapter 2. Yes, it's the chapter with the dream of the big image and the prophecy of the kingdoms -- a historical favorite with Adventists. But as I just mentioned, my series is a different look at Daniel. After spending some time with the chapter, I believe that there are themes in the chapter that are at least as significant and important, if not more so in today's world, as the prophecy itself. So that is what I plan to speak on this Sabbath.

The Fiddleheads performed another small concert this afternoon. This time, it was at the daycare operated by the Lutheran church. This was a sort of homecoming for the Fiddleheads, as this was the first public performance that they did a year or so ago. Afterwards the staff and the kids at the daycare went around collecting autographs of the Fiddleheads performers.

Last week during my helping out at VBS, I caught a cold. (That seems like the most likely place anyway.) Now both Shelley and Amy have it. Elise doesn't have it yet...

Tomorrow, June 21, is Summer Solstice. It's also the day to get out the cameras for A Day in the Life of Petersburg. Anyone and everyone is invited to make images chronicling the day, and then submit them to the fall photography show and contest at the museum. I don't know if I'll be getting out of bed at 3:30 a.m. with the first light, but I will likely be wandering about the city with a couple of cameras.