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"OF ALL THE THINGS GOD HAS SHOWN ME, I CAN SPEAK BUT A LITTLE WORD . . . NOT MORE THAN A HONEYBEE CAN CARRY AWAY ON ITS FOOT FROM AN OVERFLOWING JAR."
~ MECHTHILD OF MAGDEBURG, 13th CENTURY MYSTIC |
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June 16, 2026 While I am out of town, our UBC Administrator is sending out a rerun of VBS-week adventures from ten years ago. Fortunately, nothing quite so dramatic as the first paragraph occurred this year, but we did have chocolate raspberry crumb bars again. Yum! (originally posted June 7, 2016) Beloved: VBS 2016 will go down as the year Pastor Annette didn’t burn the building down. I was the last to leave Vacation Bible School set-up Sunday afternoon. “Let me get tomorrow’s dessert out of the oven and I’ll lock up,” I told my excellent 12-year-old kitchen assistant. The chocolate raspberry crumb bars looked and smelled perfect. I turned off the oven and set the pan on the stovetop to cool overnight, not noticing the burner still on beneath it. The retired men’s group arrived a few minutes before me Monday morning. They had already opened the windows and cleared the smoke. Some people think it smells terrible. Compared to, say, six thousand square feet of smoldering ash, I think it smells wonderful. Our other take-away from this week and next is the Habitat for Humanity Builders Blitz house we are sponsoring, which is literally going up as I type. By day’s end today it will be completely dried in, with electricals and plumbing roughed in, lots of interior drywall and exterior siding hung. As you can see, I’ve picked up all kinds of builder lingo lately. I did a quick walk-through this morning and talked with our homeowners, Irma and Oscar. They are very pleased with the process and with how their house is coming together. Irma’s new front porch is to die for. And thanks, to the UBC Gatorade crews coming and going from church to work site every afternoon too.
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