Isn't it amazing ...

... in one small piece of technology I'm carrying around, among other things: the Bible, half a dozen sermons, a fortnight's daily papers, about thirty books (so far)  including the Oxford English Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus and the New Oxford American Dictionary!
What a contrast to the family Bible!

You'd not carry that for too long or too far.
The Kindle has the opening few sentences of tonight's sermon on it.  No longer do I have to shuffle papers in the pulpit .... everything is in one neat unit.  The only drawback that I see so far is that it is less easy to edit "on the hoof" ... though if you know the text reasonably well that's not a major problem.
The last twenty years have seen so many changes in the world of technology.  Even thinking back ten or so years the size of the mobile phone has changed from the little 'brick' of the 90s to the twenty first century slim line item that brings the internet right where you are as well as still acting as a phone!
But none of the technology gives control over the weather.  This Sunday started bright and clear and the lunchtime sun was warm.

 By mid afternoon clouds descended and rain came on!  Now in the early evening temperatures have dropped and it's feeling like autumn.

 As always no blog posting would be complete without a look at the pup!  Somehow I'd left the guest room door slightly ajar and he pushed his way in and onto the chair by the window.  What a view that affords!  And Eliot missed nothing - except me creeping in with camera ready.  Maybe he chose to ignore that because it is very unlikely that he didn't hear me.  He can, after all, hear what I'm thinking!

I know that it's not good practice to let him into this room ... one of the dog-free zones in the rectory ... but he did look cute!
Now, dinner is almost ready and I'm certainly hungry for it.  I suppose Eliot might like some food too if I were to put a morsel in his dish ... ?

Lord of all power and might,
the author and giver of all good things:
Graft in our hearts the love of your name,
increase in us true religion,
nourish us with all goodness,
and of your great mercy keep us in the same;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Collect of the Seventh Sunday after Trinity

Book of Common Prayer