I know this is late...Saturday night submissions are not my practice but wow I have had a full week.  I am sitting outside tonight having a small "bon-fire" on my deck, sipping some de-caf and watching Diane read a book--and contemplating "liminality."  I just learned this word so don't be impressed...here's the Wiki-pedia definition, liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning "a threshold") is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rituals, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the ritual is complete. During a ritual's liminal stage, participants "stand at the threshold" between their previous way of structuring their identity, time, or community, and a new way, which the ritual establishes."  Why I am I thinking about this?  Breakfast with a friend this morning.  My parents recent move.  The birthday party the neighbors are having.  Another wedding this afternoon.  Our own anniversary coming up this week.  Baptisms tomorrow.  There are many rituals we experience and yet in the middle of them we are quite uncertain what the future will hold.  Looking back on 31 years of marriage, we were clueless on our wedding day where we would go, what we would do, who we would become.  I'm thinking of and praying for the ten people who will be baptized tomorrow.  This is their "official" profession of faith.  They are crossing a threshold of identification with Christ.  The symbol is powerful and meaningful.  After tomorrow they will no longer have the status they once had yet the fulness of what their new status will be is yet to be determined.  Thank You Father for knowing our past, present and future and for being with us every step of the way.  Have mercy on us.  Bless Your people.  Help us to faithfully walk in the new ways of Christ our Lord who loved us and gave Himself for us.  Amen.