Made it through preaching my third sermon ever tonight: quite well received, especially this diagram of biblical history as it relates to Psalm 137.
Managed to make the whole experience even more challenging by leading the service too – drifted into autopilot, though, and ended up finishing the service a little too quickly: even churches seem to slow down for the holiday season (after having big attendance on Christmas day).
Celebrated by returning to Zimme’s (Sylvania-based pizza restaurant) to catch up with friends: was especially good to see kathy and ian, although I somehow didn’t manage to spend as much time talking with them as I would have liked.
Happy Christmas everyone; see you in the new year.