Stream of Consciousness Sunday

* I really don't understand some of the debates that are going on during this primary season.  I can't help but want to lecture the candidates kind of like a mom or teacher, reminding them to pick their battles and stop bickering at the table.  Really?  Are these the issues that we'll let divide our country?  If we're going to let something divide us, shouldn't it be a little more substantive?

* I'm reminded of a sermon that our head pastor gave a few months ago... asking if these are really the issues the church wanted to divide over.  He said that, as a pastor, he'd been asked his viewpoint on many issues from breastfeeding in church, to showing tattoos and body piercings, to the kind of music a church "should" play.  He knew as a pastor that people might value his opinion, but he said he wanted to ask these people "Really?  Is this really the issue that should separate you from your brothers and sisters?"  Right now our church is going through a long series on 1 Corinthians and today we were on Chapter 6... in in Paul admonishes the church in Corinth for taking their disputes before the secular courts.  He said if we can't just solve issues between brothers within the church, then we've already failed.  Better to be wronged or loose and drop your pride, than allow petty issues to divide brothers and sisters.  Just food for thought.

* Nesting has taken full force.  Tonight I cleaned both bathrooms (including my nasty shower, eww!), kitchen, living room, swept and mopped all floors, and vacuumed.  I got all but one load of laundry done, but not put away (I hate putting away laundry!)... still need to get the sheets done.  I even got Nicholas' shower curtain washed. 

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