Checking account--amount received? I'm solvent. Check.

Coffee brewed and caffeine deprivation addressed? Check.

Go to church and be sermonized at? Checked the topic for this Sunday. It's regarding the need to be sensitive to the feelings and reactions of non-Christians to this relentlessly Christian season of Christmas.

I've spent many years in the company of non-Christians and people of color (that being the correct phraseology these days), having that conversation. I think I'll pass on the sermon.

Who was it who wrote of finding 'tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything'? I think I'll drive up into the hills and go for a walk. That will be my worship for the day.

Later today I'll go to the VA and visit N.