Being Shrewd!

Up early this morning to go to church. Sara was leading the Junior Church today with members of Morning Star attending both the Eucharistic service and presenting to the Junior Church. Bev and Dave together with three of their residents attended. Dave and the three men stayed in church whilst Bev and one other did the JC presentation. This morning's service was a Parish Eucharist and was well attended. Nils acted as president with Debbie (as trainee LLM) giving an excellent sermon on the importance of reading and studying God's word in the scriptures. She had the difficult task of speaking to the Luke 16 gospel reading of the "Shrewd Manager" and the essence of her sermon was that to grow in our faith we need to read and study scripture on a regular basis and to question and apply it to our lives - not that God rejoices in a dishonest financial manager! I had a very pleasant chat with her husband after the service. Morning Star were very well received and certainly enjoyed their experience in church although I do think that the hymns chosen could have been a little more uplifting. Tom, desperate to earn some money, shrewdly (!) cleaned my car this afternoon whilst Sara and Mary went to Tesco's for the weekly shop - coming back with a lovely joint of pork loin which we had for dinner tonight - no crackling but lovely tender meat. This afternoon Mary and I went swimming for an hour up at Five Rivers. She is an excellent swimmer and really loves the water. Sara chatted to David and Andrea this evening on the telephone and I went down to the Lion's Head for a couple of pints with Klynn, whom I haven't seen much for a few weeks. We chatted about bringing up teenagers and domestic finances amongst other mundane topics. Sara and I watched Victoria Wood performing live on TV (actually it was a repeat) which was a very light and enjoyable way to end the day.