Pruning, Psalm 119

Tonight in El Mirador, they tried to bury us during the council meeting and then threw me a birthday party (how thoughtful =D ). Now Horacio is out pruning the rose bushes and I am reading Psalm 119.

Bury us? How? Well you see we are being unreasonable and asking the members to not agree that we will do services or sacraments upon order but want the members to ask instead of telling us when they have planned services for us so that we can teach the parents what baptism is or have more than a week to prepare a young woman for confirmation—or be asked for a service of 9 days or 40 days (both services after a death) or 15 years with some notice.

For one, we have other churches to attend and even with the 9 day memorial service there are by nature 9 days to ask—and 15 years, well even longer. Second, these are promises from God. We have the responsibility to give them freely—which means that people know what they are receiving because if not someone will come and say that it didn’t count precisely because it was free!