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Don’t forget to change your clocks back one hour tonight, or else you will arrive at church fifty-five minutes early tomorrow … instead of five minutes late.
Don’t forget to set your clocks ahead one hour tonight for Daylight Saving Time. I forgot one year and arrived late to church the next day – and I was one of the pastors! (Click here to read about it: “The Thief”)
Thank God it (was) Friday.
God tells us to be thankful in all circumstances, so as I was shoveling snow this morning, I was thinking of reasons to be thankful. I am thankful that I am in good health. I am thankful for the snow that refreshes the earth. I am thankful that I have a home to shovel. And I am thankful that the storm came on Friday rather than Saturday night. We would have had to cancel church for sure.
My second Sunday as pastor at Agawam Church of the Bible we had to cancel services because of snow. I like to tell people that I preached my first sermon at my new church, and the next week no one came back, not even my wife!
Well, that’s it. I am done blogging for the week. Have a nice weekend. I will see you bright and early Monday morning with some new Sunday Morning SoundBytes. Until then, “Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” (1 Thessalonians 5:18)
Yes, it is that time of the year to change your clocks forward one hour and lose that precious hour of sleep. Don’t worry, you will get it back again in the fall.
I am especially aware of Daylight Saving Time because I actually forgot to change my clocks one year. Now normally that’s not a bad thing, but it is when you’re the pastor and you arrive late to church! That happened at my previous church in Florida back in spring of 1998, and I still get calls and reminders from concerned friends and members who think I might forget again. My first year here in Massachusetts they even mailed me a giant clock as a reminder! (And in fact, I just got my annual reminder call from Florida two days ago - thanks Chip!)
Do you have any fun DST stories? Feel free to share them in the Comments section. (Just click on the word Comments above.)
I know a number of you are new to blogs, so I thought I would take a moment to share with you why I have decided to blog. I began reading blogs about a year and a half ago and have benefited greatly from the information and interaction that the blog format provides. I am more of a blog reader than a blog commenter, but I have still enjoyed reading and learning from the comments of others.
So why blog? Here are three reasons:
1) Share information: This is one of the primary reasons to blog. There is a lot of information out there, and I appreciate the bloggers who have tracked down pertinent information for me and presented it in an organized and readable format. Information sharing goes both ways. Blogging allows me to share information with you, and you to share information back with me. This way we learn from each other.
2) Connect with people: That is - connect with old friends and meet new people as well. Blogging is a public forum and so any number of people may stop by and eventually become a regular reader/contributor at a particular site. I look forward to meeting new people through this site and hope you do too.
3) Capture and organize ideas: As a pastor I do a lot of reading - not just blogs, but books and magazine articles too. I often have lots of ideas while reading, but unless I write those ideas down someplace, I am bound to lose them. Blogging gives me a place to write down and share some of those ideas along the way.
Why blog? Those are three reasons that have motivated me to get started. What do you think? What are some other benefits of reading or writing blogs?
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