Thursday, August 29, 2013

I'm having a baby!

Today is sermon writing day.  Of everything I do, this is the hardest task, without a doubt.  I love preaching and I'm growing more confident in my ability to write.  Still, sermon writing is a daunting task.  So it's no wonder that the following comment from one of Jan Karon's "Mitford" books really resonated with me, 

(Father Tim) had just written and delivered a sermon and now it was time to write another.  A priest whose name he couldn't remember had nailed it: "It's like having a baby on Sunday and waking up pregnant on Monday."

From "In This Mountain," chapter 16.