Easter Eve

I learned something tonight. Well... I suppose I learned a number of things. I learned that it takes me 42 minutes to drive from Owatonna without stopping for coffee. I don’t even want to take time to calculate how much time I’ll be on the road during my Internship. It doesn’t matter.

I’m listening to audio books. I’ve listened to most of The Silmarillion and am just finishing up The Evolution of God by Robert Wright. Wright’s book is good. It has some really humorous lines in it. It’s a little hard to listen to. He dismantles the three “Abrahamic” faiths pretty soundly with the purpose I think of taking some of the uniqueness out of them. Listen, you’re all in the same boat; you’ve evolved from the same Neolithic roots; the God you worship is the same “God”. Because Jew, Christian, Moslem evolve from these same roots the end game can be peace. He also writes about science and “God” and uses some really fascinating arguments for the “trajectory” of the “Designer”, whether that “Designer” is God or Natural Selection. In any case, more on that later.

I was given the task of coordinating the Vigil Readings. Five readings with limited drama. People volunteered but we didn’t practice. It went well but not great. I think it made me self-conscious for the rest of the service. I wish we had had a chance to go through it at least once. Maybe I should have pushed harder to do this. Later, during Holy Eucharist the Priest and Deacon sort of signed that they wanted me to help as a chalice bearer. I was glad to do it but I felt out of sorts and stumbled around with the Deacon. The first person that came dipped her bread and I said “The blood of Christ.”... oops... forgot the last bit. I threw in a “The cup of heaven.” I got better. Well, I wasn’t the paragon of confidence that I should have been.