Sunny Sunday

Well, it is about over! We went to church at Sarasota Baptist Church this morning. It was a bit different from what we are used to as they have "praise and worship" music with guitars and drums and a praise and worship team. They also have an orchestra that was good. The choir was very good and we had no trouble understanding the words to their song since they had them up on the screen.

The pastors sermon was on Jonah. This is a special book to me as I was saved as a small child and the sermon that was being preached when I went forward was about Jonah.

The pastor this morning preached about the cycle we go through in the christian life. I am trying to remember it.....Running.....Crying....Obedience....Judging. His point was that we are all somewhere in there. First we may be running from God. If so, God will orchestrate the things around us to bring us to Him. At that point we may cry to Him for deliverance. He presents us with a command to obey. As we obey Him and begin to once again grow closer to Him, our nature dictates to us that we judge. We may begin to judge those around us in comparison. We don't want to do that. We need to judge ourselves and then go back to obedience and make it a spiral instead of a circle. It was a good sermon and I must say, I had to check myself as the "layed back" attitude about dress and music was bringing out a little judgemental attitude in me. Lord, please forgive me.

We have supper to eat and then an hour trip to the St. Petersburg/Clearwater airport before our plane takes off at 9:25....arriving at home at 10:55. Lord give us safety!

Can't wait to sleep in my own bed tonight and I know Shawn and Shannon will be glad to do the same.