Beloved
This sermon was delivered at the Medstar Georgetown University Hospital Protestant Worship service on October 19, 2017. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So, I’ve been on this organizing-kick lately. It started with de-cluttering our apartment, but has quickly become an all-encompassing obsession. I’ve done pretty well with getting rid of clothes, excess towels, old people magazines, and general kitsch we’ve inherited over the years… so this week I’ve moved on to dealing with digital clutter. While digging through thousands of pictures and word documents, I’ve come across a ton of old cover letters. You know what I mean by cover letters, right? I despise writing cover letters, don’t you? They are so awkward and self-congratulatory, and somehow I always use vocabulary I never use in regular conversation: “Dear Sir or Madame, I am writing you on the behest of