HOT! HOT! HOT!

The August heat and humidity are omnipresent at the moment.  The national conference of govenors is meeting in our town.  What were they thinking?   On Tuesday, the built-in thermometer in my car read 105 degrees.  Today, it read 97 degrees as I traveled down the highway from church to home.  The heat is the opening topic in most every conversation and usually the farewell - "Now, keep out of the heat!", comes the good-bye bidding. "You, stay cool, too,"  comes the reply.  Whew!  The gentle and temperate clime of this past spring is a distant memory.  Will fall ever come?

Tomorrow is husband John's birthday.  Way to go, big guy!  We are now in our mid-fifties and every year is starting to feel like an accomplishment.  I am doing reading and writing in preparation for the first workshop in my Doctor of Ministry program.  The reading is so very helpful.  One book in particular, Models of Contextual Theology  by Stephen Bevans, has been acutely helpful.  If any of you are wondering what in the world has been happening with the Episcopal Church, check out this book.  It helped me understand how a shift in the approach to doing theology has prompted a seismic shift in our denomination.  Yup.  It's there in black and white.

Well, don't get overheated y'all!