One of the great blessings...

...that comes with this change of position, is the freedom to attend the midweek services at St. Paul’s. Today, Cin and I got up as usually do at six, read and prayed from Treasury, enjoyed coffee and chatted, and then got out our bikes and headed to St. Paul’s to catch the midweek Divine Service. We’re not the only ones. A number of fellow parishioners faithfully join the teachers and school children in chanting the Divine Service, hearing God’s Word, receiving His wondrous gifts. It rained while we were in church. I wiped down our bikes with a hanky and we were off, with some beautiful clouds and rain storms visible in a couple places on the horizon. We got home and I fixed a hot chocolate (no sugar at all; just chocolate, salt, cinnamon, vanilla and hot water) and thought over what a blessing life in our parish is. Needed to write about it.