I just got back from an emergency — late at night — won’t get much sleep before church tomorrow — tired —<\/p>\n
Sounds dramatic, doesn’t it? Maybe you pictured me on an emergency call at the bedside of some deathly ill person. But it wasn’t anything like that.<\/p>\n
We’ve been having problems with the boiler at church, I went down to check before I went to bed, and sure enough the heat was out and the building was chilly. I hit the reset button on the boiler, it came on for half an hour, went out again. So I called Advance Heating, waited for the repairman to come out, and then waited to see if it would be a quick fix. It looks like he’s going to be there for a while longer yet.<\/p>\n
Not a particularly dramatic story. Most of my life as a minister is not particularly dramatic. At least we’ll have heat for the worship service tomorrow morning. Good night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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