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| Photo by Katie @ French Bakery |
In New Orleans this weekend I had brain posts going about shopping, walking, smells, the hotel and its view, weather, food, street cars and my lame attempts at photography.
Because of a series of things, I went to a UMC that was on the street car line and felt so warm and happy there. The pastor spoke to me before the service, and I was so moved by her sermon that as she was hugging people on the way out, I made the move and hugged her myself. (I'm not a hugger as a general rule.) I thanked her and told her I wished I lived here -- and she said "me too" and "hey that's a thought." Although I don't think Shawn would be down with that commute!
She had some suggestions for other UMC's I should try in Baton Rouge (I haven't really written about my quest for a church here, or the way I've stiffened to the two most obvious choices).
And today she sent me an e-mail to say it was nice to meet me and reiterating her suggestions/inviting me to come back any time. I love communicating online, and I think it's so nice of her -- to connect in a way that's meaningful to me.
So my first longer-than-two-hours trip to New Orleans was a success. I'll look forward to going back and hope I can sustain some of the renewal I felt. So far I'm not doing that great, but there's always tomorrow.
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| View from 2053 up Canal Street |
2 comments:
Hey, I though I was the only "mind blogger" out there! Phew, that's a relief. I'd be standing at the bus-stop after work thinking of a blog, pretty much writing it up in my mind about how the bus always goes the other direction more than the direction I'm going but when I get home it's just gone from my head POOF!
yeah, right, go to New Orleans in January.
(anybody could probably survive it then)
~FTL
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