Bread and Wine

I'm preaching tomorrow, which means I'm working on my sermon this afternoon.  Yes, I'm still allowed to preach, I'm just not allowed to wear a collar or stole while doing so.  You could preach, too, if you had a mind to.  Anyone can preach.  Anyhoo, tomorrow is one of the many bread texts that happen during this particular round of the lectionary cycle, and I was thinking I would do tomorrow's post around bread since that's what I'll be preaching on, but it turns out that today is Lammas and Lughnasadh.  What are Lammas and Lughnasadh, you ask?  Well, you could have clicked on the links and saved me some typing, but whatever, I'll tell you.  

Lammas:  "In some English-speaking countries in the Northern Hemisphere, August 1 is Lammas Day (Anglo-Saxon hlaf-mas, "loaf-mass"), the festival of the wheat harvest, and is the first harvest festival of the year. On this day it was customary to bring to church a loaf made from the new crop, which began to be harvested at Lammastide."

Lughnasadh:  "Lughnasadh or Lughnasa (pronounced /ˈluːnəsə/, LOO-nə-sə; Irish: Lúnasa, /ˈl̪ˠuːn̪ˠəsˠə/; Scottish Gaelic: Lùnastal, [ˈl̪ˠu:nəsd̥əl̪ˠ]; Manx: Luanistyn, [ˈluanɪst̪ən]) is a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of the harvest season."

See how appropriate it is that I'm working on texts that have to do with bread?  At least I think it's appropriate.  So in celebration of bread texts and harvest festivals, here are some shoes that make me think of both (also communion):

I kind of wish I had these to wear to preach in tomorrow.  Except, of course, that they would be terribly itchy.

 

Maybe these would be less itchy?  But you know how I love to preach in heels (or out of them, as the case usually is).

Or these!  Lots of colors to choose from, but still going with the theme.  I love a good theme shoe.  And, I'm guessing (hoping) these wouldn't be itchy.

 

I've posted these before, and I think they're kind of cool if they were a decoration on a food table, but I keep seeing pictures of people actually wearing them, and that's just gross.  Even I won't go that far for a theme.  I know carbs are bad, but just avoid them, don't shove them on your feet!

Moving on to the grape portion of today's events.  How cute are these?  They are definitely going into the imaginary canvas shoe collection!

I posted this before in the black version.  It's pretty crazy.  Does it really need the fake grapes?  It might be kind of cute, if oddly shaped, without them.

And, of course, the finished product.  I liked the plaid shoe wine holder.

So, bread and wine, and random harvest festivals.  I think you can probably work with that to find a way to celebrate this first day of August!

May the Fourth

It has actually been a fairly busy few days, so I have some catching up to do since my last post on Friday.

Saturday was Double A's 15th birthday, which just sounds crazy.  How is it possible this adorable baby is now taking driver's ed?

She was the happiest, sweetest baby, and has turned into the happiest, sweetest young woman.  I don't live with her, so I don't know for absolute sure, but she doesn't even seem to be going through a terribly horrible teenage phase.

 

She's my green girl, so here are some green (flat) shoes for her.

Saturday we also had people over to watch the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight.  Eh...not my cup of tea, but the hubby enjoyed it, and we got to see a couple of people we hadn't seen in quite awhile, so that was nice.  Boxing shoes are weird, but blue for me and green for AA.

Yesterday I preached and led worship for the first time in over a year.  It went pretty well, actually.  I only made one ginormous mistake during the liturgy, and only almost fell off the step in the pulpit once (I preached with my shoes ON, how was I supposed to feel where my feet were?)  The Gospel text was from John where Jesus says, "I am the Vine, you are the branches."  So we have some really crazy grape shoes, and some slightly less crazy grape flip flops (in green, of course, for AA).

I wore new turquoise shoes that I bought with my birthday coupons at Kohl's:

They aren't this blurry in real life...

And today is May 4th, so if you're a Star Wars nerd you know that today you say, "May the Fourth be with you."  I am a Star Wars nerd, so this makes me giggle.  I love the R2D2 shoes, am a little frightened by the Darth Vader shoes, and again included some awesome green shoes for Awesome A.

So there you have.  Many themes, one post.  Time for bed.