Sunday
Happy Birthday, Sister!
Last week we changed our Sunday worship time in Lausanne from morning to late afternoon, starting at 17:00. (That’s 5 PM to you non military types. To figure that out, take the first number, add twelve to it, divide that number in half, then multiply by the difference between your time zone and GMT. Unless it’s summer, of course.)
The first Sunday we had visitors down from the mountains (we hadn’t seen them in over a year) and friends from the Bern and Geneva churches. Yesterday, the couple from Bern was present again and 16 of us hung around for pancakes.
People paid a big price to come… Roger Federer was winning his first ever French Open (Roland Garros), but who said worship is easy, right?
Speaking of which, worship is a privilege. To enter into His presence… That He accepts our praise… That is privilege. That is indeed extraordinary. (Lord, help me not to forget it.)
So we are driving 50 minutes to Geneva on Sunday mornings to be with brothers and sisters there. It is not home. Lausanne is home. But it does the soul good.
evendays
June 8, 2009@ 2:51 pm
…….or yo could just subtract 12 from 1700!
Glad for your good worship time.
June 9, 2009@ 5:24 am
We have to use military time on death certificates, so I got a watch at Wal Mart for $12 that has both 12 and 24-hour time. That’s much easier than the mathematical formula you gave!
June 15, 2009@ 6:10 pm
Pancakes after worship is a good way to celebrate that privilege.
June 17, 2009@ 2:03 pm
You need to change the heading of your blog to: Two hundred words more or less every other month about life in Lausanne. I miss your every other DAY blog.