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Pastor Greg’s Gandering Summer Reflections Tis the lazy, hazy days of summer and I thought I’d offer a gander at recent experiences. To start with, do you know the difference between a church in London and a museum in London? The museums are free. Yup, the museums are free, but to get into the historic churches like St. Paul’s and Westminster Abbey you have to pay – a lot. But enough of a slam on the troubled English churches; what was interesting was how in the midst of thousands of tourists wandering through the archways, they continued to have services and operate as a church. This must be very difficult, but they seemed to pull it off. It struck me how we have much the same challenge in our lives. How do we continue to worship God in a busy, hectic world with lots of distractions? Worship in the church continued to go on even with those thousands of tourist meandering around. They even stopped everything and got everyone quiet once every hour for a moment of prayer. Maybe that would be a good way to do it – to stop every hour for a moment of prayer. Maybe a little beep from your watch or phone would remind you hourly to take 15 seconds to pray. In any case, if you can remember God and God’s blessings throughout the day, it probably would make for a happier day. My next gander is at the situation with the Mosque in NY. I just wonder, would it be inappropriate to build a Christian church across the street from the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City where Christian fundamentalists blew it up and killed hundreds of people including small children in a act of domestic terrorism? It is a logical fallacy to reason: The bombers who blew up the trade center were Muslim. Blowing up the trade center was evil. Therefore, all Muslims are evil. And finally, I write this on the last day of Annie being with us as she moves up to CSU. I can’t think of any other occasion so torn with the emotions of grief and joy. Usually, it’s clearly one or the other, but this experience seems to be equally divided down the middle. Watching the last child move away is definitely a crisis point and a passage into a new adventure in life. You’ve got to love the adventure.