Willow Branches in Autumn Winds

I’m hoping to write some more about our fabulous trip to St. Louis at some point, but this week I’ve been focusing on preparing a sermon for Sunday. I’ll be preaching at our church, Bethany Covenant Church in Lyndhurst, while our pastor is away. (On a side note: I also want to write more about our church. We began going there in January and became members in May. After a year of searching, it’s great to have found a church community to belong to.) I am excited about this opportunity—I love leading Bible studies, and I have given some talks at InterVarsity meetings and such, but this is my first opportunity to preach at a Sunday morning service.

Unfortunately, I’ve been struggling this evening to get into “the zone” with putting my thoughts on paper. Greg, our pastor, suggested a passage to preach on, and I’ve been thinking about it a lot for several weeks, but now that I’m sitting down to actually write, I’m a little stuck. Hence, I am procrastinating by sharing on Tumblr that I have writer’s block. I have a very busy few days coming up, so I’m not sure when I’ll have another big chunk of time to work on it.