I know a lot of clergy celebrate the Sunday after Easter as Holy Humor Sunday, but, if I'm being honest, I'm really just not that funny.  So rather than force something that just won't work for me, this past Sunday we stuck to the things that I am good at in worship -integrating special music into the service, bringing the community together to bless a new batch of prayer shawls and gathering around the living waters of baptism as we baptized our very own Baby Jesus (or at least, he played him in the Christmas pageant last year!).  It was a wonderful Sunday and I was thrilled to see so many people come out, considering it was the end of school vacation and there is often a low after Easter Sunday, anyway.

Enjoy today's sermon!  Felt a little strange to be out of our sermon series, but it's always nice to just read the scripture at the beginning of the week and then see where my mind takes me.