Whew!

It was a busy few days. Our church member passed away on Wednesday, prepared for the memorial service on Thursday, had it on Friday, and here we are today.

The reason for the rush is to keep costs down. A straight burial within three days is the most cost effective, with anything other treatment having to be done elsewhere. The cemetery is city-owned so anything done on the weekends costs extra.

All this meant that preparing for today’s sermon simply did not happen. Instead all of the time went into preparing the sermon, the life story, and the program for the memorial; and on working out what I would say at the graveside service.

Because of that, this morning, I simply played a videotape of a Sabbath sermon by Dr. Randy Roberts of the Loma Linda University Church. Not only that, but I was rather unprepared to lead the discussion on the Sabbath School lesson. Oh well.

I’m resting up a bit this afternoon, praying and hoping for a less eventful week to come.

A nice rainstorm came in overnight and is drenching us still. Thursday and the first part of Friday seemed pretty nice, at least from the little I saw. The higher hills and mountains are definitely getting whiter.