It’s Sunday morning and the faithful have gathered. Here at Hometown Friends Church we’ve been looking at our mission: “a growing community, listening to Christ, changing in the Spirit, living out love.” Today the time for quiet reflection directly follows the message and I’m thinking about how self gets in the way of God and others. In my mind I’m playing with a cone-shaped image that involves oil and water—the oil being top and center. And now I’m thinking about emulsification.

I see in the schedule for the service that next we will be singing, “In my life Lord, be glorified.”