Here is my draft of my message for Sunday.

Growing in Holiness 2013 02 17 Lent 1  Rom 10:4-13

There is the old story about the head of a monastery.  One day, a very old copy of the guidelines for their order was found,  and he carefully reads it.  He suddenly starts wailing. They dropped the r.  The word was celebrate.

Today is the first Sunday of Lent, a time to open ourselves to coming closer to God, and allowing God to come closer to us.

It's lovely little Gothic style church ca. 1870 with a country road before it, and marshes that reach out to Northumberland Strait behind. But the devil may lurk in the loveliest places.

Our minister has rhe required hair on his head and, at least in token fom, on his face to be worthy to serve at the altar. Leviticus 21:3.