We have only a few patches of snow left over from last week's snow storm. I'm starting to think "spring", but I know there's a bit of winter left. However, camelias are blooming, & daffodils will be in glorious bloom by the end of this month.

Here's a thought from our church bulletin.:

"People all over the country shop for churches that "work for them." This attitude is terribly wrong. "Church" is not an event. It is people --people whom God calls us to love. What is more, it is in a very important sense an involuntary community of people: we don't choose our brothers and sisters--God does. And sometimes (often times) those people are not terribly compatible with us--not the people we would choose to hang out with. But it is this very incompatibility that is so mportant, for at least two reasons. First, learning to love the people I don't like is by far the best way to learn how to love (it's easy to love people I happen to like). Second, the church is supposed to be a sociological miracle--a demonstration that Jesus has died and risen to create a new humanity composed of all sorts of people.
Charles Drew from A Journey Worth Taking

Worship is to be an act, rather than a receiving of an experience.

We will be moving to our new hospital (Riverbend) in August. No one gets vacation from May through September.) The current site will still be in use, with an emergency room, 4-bed ICU, inpatient care for geriatric patients, among other things. I will be working at Riverbend, as pulmonary function testing will be done there.

All for now.

Margaret