Because I am a pastor, I feel like I should be writing about important and meaningful spiritual insights here. But if you remember from my last post, I don't do "shoulds" very well. The problem is that I really don't have that many grand spiritual insights. At least I don't think I do. And the ones I do think I have aren't usually all that original, and they generally end up in a Sunday sermon. I don't want this to be about sermon writing, sermon preparation, or sermon anything. What I do want this to be is a place to share random thoughts on random subjects. Hence, the title of my blog: "The View From My Window."
I just happen to have a "million dollar" view from my office window. If were to randomly poll the pastors in just my own denomination -- the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) -- I would wager that I have one of the top 25 best views from a church pastor's office window in the lower 48 states. Now of course that is a matter of opinion, but I still think I do. Trinity Church sits at the corner of Hastings Ranch Drive and Sierra Madre Blvd. in northeast Pasadena almost directly under Mt. Wilson, and I have a picture window over my desk with the most amazing view of the majestic San Gabriel Mountains.
From my window I can watch hummingbirds feed on camelias, little lizards basking in the hot California sun, the neighborhood pair of cats - one black and one white - chasing critters in the churchyard, red-tailed falcons perching on telephone poles and soaring from tree to tree, ferral parrots screeching, and mourning doves cooing. (This morning a mourning dove decided that the top of my air conditioner would make a great place for a nest. -- they are pretty dumb birds.) I have even seen an owl sitting in a tree and an albino squirrel.
Looking out my window gives me a very different perspective on this crazy and wonderful world in which we live, and so, for those of you who wanted to know (all two of you), that's the reason for the title of this blog.
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