Gentle readers, let it be known that I have finished my sermon for tommorow. Thus, this post is not procratination by any means!

Is it just me, or does sermon writing just go better at home? For some reason, I just can't write in my office at church. I love my office at church. It is beautiful. When people walk into it for the first time, they smile, and a zen-like expression takes over their face, even for just a moment. I've worked very hard to make it a soothing, welcoming place--well decorated but not flashy, comfortable without being sloppy. The Session was generous in the furnishings budget-and I managed to come in some $300 under it by shopping carefully and using the tax-exempt status when possible.

I can plan worship there, write the newsletter there, study there, counsel there, prepare for Confirmation class there, take care of the 1,001 administrivia details that a solo must stay on top of there...but I cannot homileticize there.

So, I write at home, and usually when other people are there. This morning I was writing my sermon, working really hard at it, just toiling away when this conversation took place:

OEH: "Hey, why are you unloading the dishwasher?"

CH: "I'm not really doing housework, I'm working on my sermon."

OEH "That makes no sense whatsoever. Of course you're doing housework."

CH: "No I'm not." (Yes, I'm queen of the snappy comeback.)

OEH: "So, if I ask you to throw in a load of wash for me, I would be furthering the Gospel?"

CH: "Don't push it."