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10/23/2002 Entry: "Home again home again"

Back again, Wednesday night as predicted.

It's been an interesting few days. I caught up with my sister for the first time in about a year. She got married while we were in Florida, so there was a lot to catch up on! It is too easy to let these relationships slip and the longer they're left the more difficult they are to pick up again. So that feels better.On a lighter note, I saw a hotel in Llandudno that had it's Christmas decs up! What is going on?! I'm as big a fan of Christmas as anyone, but it surely loses its excitement if you start celebrating it in October. It is perfectly obvious that the secular world (at least in Britain) has completely lost the idea of Advent, but does anyone agree with me that large sections of the church seem to be chucking it out as well?In church on Sunday I heard, for the first time ever, a preacher heckled for going on too long. Problem was, he was trying to preach at least three sermons at the same time, only one of which had any connection with the Bible passage he'd chosen. My mother always says that the rules for preaching are

1. Stand up
2. Speak up
3. Shut up