Snowstorm!

It snowed today! Officially, we picked up all of a trace. All of the TV weather dudes in town were screwed into the ceiling about the all of the snow and the windstorm that we were going to have. I think that we had a gust to 25 miles per hour a couple of hours ago...big deal! Today was Good Friday. St. John's had our annual tradition, a service of darkness (Tennebrae). The crowd looked rather sparse, until I realized that 20 of us were up in the chancel area as members of the choir and participants in the drama. The actual count was 77 people, which is more than we had in our regular Sunday services...two of them...a year ago. We had about 20 guests in the group...ON GOOD FRIDAY! I am getting a little nervous, but mostly excited, about the prospects of what the crowd is going to be like on Easter. We may have more than the place can hold. What a nice problem to have. You might want to show up. I will be preaching about football. I gave up watching football for Lent, but now that Lent is over its open season!

As I am writing, we just finished putting together two great big egg casseroles for the Easter Breakfast at church on Sunday morning. A big "pot luck" breakfast is a long standing tradition in the Lutheran Church. I am not really sure where the term "pot luck" came from. I think that it may have been connected with all of the Scandinavian Lute-er-ans back in the 18th century bringing food and stuff (including lutefisk) to church to throw in a pot together to see what turned out. Those who survived were considered to have a great deal of "luck". If you show up for breakfast Sunday morning you will be able to tell which of the 32,345 egg casseroles were made here in the Albrecht house. Ours will be the one with the red tint, as Kay severed 3 fingers an arm and her kiester while slicing proscuttio...that's Italian for ham that has been cured into shoe leather. Proscuttio may not be a Lute-er-an delicacy, but the shedding of blood is apropos for the Holy Week. With all of this to look forward to...I cannot imagine why all of you would not show up on Sunday morning!