You know when you go to those restaurants and the hostess gives you the little light-beeper thing that shakes when your table is ready? In high school when going out with friends, that sort of event required the one holding the light-beeper thing to jump up and yell, “I won! I won!” when it started to shake.
That story? Very little to do with the actual purpose of this post.
I received a mysterious check in my campus mailbox last week. A check from the business office here at seminary. I was utterly confused. I mean, Luther sending me money is typically a good thing but why? I look on the attached info sheet and it reads thus: “Honorable Mention in Intern Stewardship.” To break that down into normal-people’s talk –
The seminary holds a stewardship sermon contest for interns. Interns can submit a financial stewardship sermon that they preached while on internship. I preached and I submitted. (With many thanks to Grace’s Summer of Stewardship preaching opportunities!) And I won! Well. I won one of three honorable mentions. Not the big prize. Or the second biggest prize. (There are my inner jackals – the ways in which I down-talk myself.) But hey – honorable mention!
I accept.
there's no place like gnome. 
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