hmmm ... ok. i found the clock and changed it (hopefully) to reflect my local time here. do you need to know where 'here' is? we're in emmerton va, which is a tiny hamlet outside the small town of Warsaw, on the Northern Neck Peninsula, between the Rappahannock and the potomac rivers. Emmerton is unincorporated. it used to have it's own post office, but no longer does. we live across the street from it. we've been here since june of 2003 and love it. really. rural living ... or nearly rural, (except we don't farm) i suppose. this afternoon we went to farnham manor, a nearby retirement home, and had a brief (30 minute) worship service. i lost my train of thought completely while giving the devotional, and ran with the second referenced scripture and forgot completely to work my way back to the first... oh well.

this evening, we had our monthly 'family night' event at church. tonight we had 'soup night' - four different kinds of soup, plus sandwiches and a couple of sides, and desserts. at the opening of the prayer, i commented that, although we as baptists like to joke about how much we like to eat (and i suspect any given denomination will claim the same thing), after all is said and done, anytime we gather in community to share a meal and fellowship with each other, it is a foretast of the feast that is to come. the message this morning was about making the kingdom of God real TODAY, HERE, and not just look for a time in some distant future. (crf: rev 21:1-5 and Philippians 1:21-25)