Religion Chat thread number 1

[nickelbabyjesus]

I wanted to put some random thoughts and stuff regarding church, without it having to be a debate or a specific topic (and not prayers, either)

It's basically, a "what happened at church (or in my musical/spiritual life) this week" thread.
Please join me!

I'll start:

We had Midnight Mass (on Christmas Eve, would you believe!), and it was half past 11, everyone was sitting and ready for the service to start - I waved the organist to give me my notes: he was just about to plat them when:
" TAXI FOR suchandsuch " came blaring out of our speaker system.
There's a Wetherspoon's over the road and looks like the DJ's mike was on the same frequency as our radio mikes.
So, all the congregation started giggling and we had to wait 5 minutes until everyone was calm and collected enough to carry on.

ooops - forgot I changed last night for kucking's thead

Hi lyra

you're welcome here, any time!
It's merged more into a chat thread with people of a christian nature.
almost athread where you can be a christian and not worry about whether someone will try to persuade you otherwise

your all age service doesn't sound very inclusive, does it? basically saying everyone has to be bored no matter what age!
In our church, (well, St Mary's) the all age service is much more catered to the kids, so it's full of songs and dancing, rather than a normal church service iyswim.

It's good that you had the option of going to a later service, too.

it's kind of a canticles, charisma and chat for Christian types

oh and PA - DS's leg a lot better thanks. Still quite sore, but apparently not as bad as yesterday,

i like that

I can't believe it's been going so long, too - normally when i start a thread noone replies and it dies.

I'm glad for this thread, though, cos IRL, i can't really talk about churchy stuff, because noone that i know outside of church does this kind of thing .
I'm very lucky to have married DH, because my ex used to look down his snotty nose on church all the time .

good, glad he's mending.

other churchy stuff I do includes mums' Bible study, well it's open to anyone but in reality only mums come so far, as it's at 915 Mon morn just after sch drop off, fun chatty and a bit challenging; cook once a month for Boaz homeless shelter at our church; join in the 'cooking in a crisis' rota my friend runs; sing in a gospel choir; help run a bible based toddler group and help with kids groups at church. phew! sounds like a lot, but feels like never quite enough. oh also pray about once a week with 2 other mums.

yes I thought it was rather clever - both ends of the worship spectrum and everything in between

wow, lyra, how do you have time for anything else?

yes, netball, swimming, dog walks, elderly mum duty, washing, lunch out, the Archers, coffees and chats with friends, a bit of work here and there (speech therapy), book group, trying to lose weight...I could go on, but you are probably drifting off at this point.

but I don't have time to clean my house.

I pay people to do that.

I'm that you pay people to clean your house

I could list everything I do for church and other stuff - but I'd probably send myself to sleep never mind the rest of you

oops sorry if you're snoring. I promise no more lists.

- no I did't mean that

I actually love lists (I just happen to lead a very dull and boring life so my list of what I do is most definitely snooze worthy LOL)

ok.
what did you have for lunch today, or didn't you eat yet? what are you planning? I've had soup, bread and an orange and I'm gonna get on with making something for tea soon. we're all out to a party 5-7 so we need to eat early or late, and I need to get it sorted before school run time.

I had a cheese and cheap ham sandwich and 2 slices of malt loaf (oh and coffee and fag).

Am off to Toddlers at church in a bit. Though I'm knackered and ay have a lie down.........so hopefully I won't sleep too long

she didn't mean that she didn't want to hear your lists, she meant that her own lists are snoreworthy.

I used to love malt loaf.
can't even smell it now.

why aren't my striking outs workings?

Thank you nickel for removing my foot from my mouth (I think that's 3 times this last week I''ve had to have it removed )

I must confess to a bit of a spiritual struggle in the past 2 weeks. We have a very fit and lovely Christian workman doing a loft conversion atm, and it's a struggle to keep my thoughts on track....

Nothing really to worry about though, a girl can dream can't she?

hello everyone
I had toasted cheese sandwiches and just had a slice of apple cake that I made this morning with a cup of tea (it's mid afternoon now). No warmer here today and it snowed this morning .

I'm in awe of your list lyra. How old are you DCs?

lyra - my mantra on that is that it's human nature to think stuff like that - and as long as it stays in your mind and you don't try and do anything about it it'sa bsolutely fine.

Lets not forget that Jesus had all the human emotions, I doubt very much that he grew up as a young man without thinking at least once or twice "ooo she's nice"......but then just had to remind himself why he was there

you have to think in terms of spiritual brotherhood!

you'll be fine.

that's true - i bet he fancied Mary Magdalene.