Not a fire truck, I said a fur truck.

Okay, I did something today that I try and never ever do. I went to Target on the weekend. I guess I didn't really have to go today, but I wanted to get out of the house and that seemed like a good place to go. I know I could have gone to the park or some other such beautiful place but I went to Target instead. However, I now feel as if it was Divine providence that took me to the overcrowded mega-strore today. What is that you might ask? Well had I not gone to the Target today I might have never seen the pick-up truck covered in leopard fur. Yes I said it, covered in fur. Now before all my peta loving fans begin writing in, I'm fairly certain it was fake fur. But seriously a truck covered in leopard fur, how much better can that get. I parked right beside it. I wished I'd had a camera so I could document the whole thing. Because some of you might be tempted to not believe that such a site truly exists. Oh, but it does and it was beautiful. Beautiful in the so tacky and disturbing that it is fantastic kind of way.
Outside of the fur truck, (As I write that I can't help but think that someone in the south, my home sweet home, might say fire truck and it would sound a lot like fur truck.) today was not all that spectacular. My sermon was good today, I was able to use three songs from three musicals. I sang two and played the third. That was fun. But the service outside that was just a little underwhelming. It was a combined service with the Methodist church, and I didn't plan the service. We take turns one month I preach and the other pastor plans the service and the next month we switch. Today also they had a praise band that doesn't consider itself a praise band but instead a folk band. But whatever you call it they chose some cheesy praise music. They at one point asked me what my sermon was going to focus on and I told them. They told me they had been working on one song, and I pointed out that song didn't fit with the sermon. They apparently decided to just stop asking. They at least didn't play the song that I said didn't fit. But it was just some music that I just don't like and some members of my congregation don't like either. The lyrics are just weak. They don't have much depth. One song liked but the way it was lead just sucked. It was supposed to be a round and it just didn't work. Had it been lead better it might have been really nice. Forget the fact that it was a reference to a completely different scripture text than the one we were using in the service. Normally, that wouldn't necessarily be bad if it fit with the service, but this was a direct quote from scripture. Then they were supposed to end with a Bob Dylan song, that didn't quite fit but I would have been alright with. However, they changed it to some train song, that I knew and had heard but again it didnt' fit. And I really didn't like it. I'd rather had Bob Dylan. So just a little disappointed. I'm giving this until the end of the year and if it hasn't gotten better then we will probalby stop worshipping together on the 4th Sundays. But do I really want to do that. Is it more important to worship together and put up with our different worship styles? Or is it more important to do worship that I feel good about every week? I don't know. I know I sure do like having that one Sunday off from preaching every other month.
Well at least I still have the fur truck.
Peace out!