Relaxing Day, Intensive Day

Yesterday was the first day of the onground intensive for the TEEM program. We'll spend the first two days of the week learning about Lutheran Liturgy, then a Wednesday workshop on Lutheran polity, and we'll finish with a class on Old Testament prophets. We begin each day with worship/devotion time at 8, and we go until 4 or 5, depending on how much time we take to eat lunch that is brought in for us.It's an intensive, not a relaxive, and the contrast with Sunday is huge. Sunday was a restorative day. I did a lot of sewing and a lot of reading, both for intensive week and for pleasure. I had a video call with my old Florida quilting group and a phone call with my spouse.I didn't do any church livestreaming, so it was somewhat strange yesterday to hear people refer to the Bible readings we would have been hearing on Sunday--not the readings, but the recognition that almost everyone else had gone to church before traveling. It reminded me of how far I travel, and how rare it is to…