What a Wonderful World

 The link for this week's live-streamed service is here.

Sitting in the dirt, digging in my garden last week, the words of old Louis Armstrong song came to mind, "what a wonderful world." I wholeheartedly agreed. The sun was warm on my back, an eagle soared overhead, my cat chased bugs under the bushes and the soil beneath my fingers promised an abundant harvest. What a wonderful world, indeed.

But there is another verse to that song that is often forgotten.                                                                      

I see friends shaking hands
Saying, "How do you do?"
They're really saying
I love you

 It was that part of the song that resonated on Sunday after worship, when the congregation gathered to share lunch together. 

We talk a lot about fellowship, about the example of the early church meeting in houses, but I think all the smiling faces around a common table  are "really saying, I love you."

Thanks to Barb and her friends for organizing and serving the meal. There is nothing quite so "family" as sitting down to a meal together.