The temperature finally got up over freezing this past weekend -- warm enough to open the windows and declare a Spring Cleaning day. I did the three bathrooms and the three upstairs rooms. My husband cleaned out the fireplace, the porch where we stack the firewood in the winter and enjoy the sound of the nearby stream in the summer, and scrubbed out the kitchen. Oh, bliss!
The day before, I had just heard the news that an old friend had been elected a bishop in the Episcopal Church. Evidently the election process was a bit messy, but looking at the ballots posted on the internet, it seemed as though the newly-elected bishop had in fact been the frontrunner all along. And it got me to wondering, how do we 'clean up' in God's household? It was a day's work for my husband and me to get our little house sparkling and fresh. Now my friend has been called to be the head-of-household for over 100 congregations. How does that get done?
