Canticles, charisma and chat (Religion thread number 2)

[BaroqueAroundTheClock]

the first one is nearly full.

Anyone welcome, it's basically a "what happened in church/spiritual life/anything else you want to chat about that's vaguely related (or not) to churchy stuff.

I think mixing persons bothers me more than modern 2nd person!

that was rather thinking out loud, wasn't it?

Twas rather. I am being somewhat repetitive. Tis because my brain is all confuddled from having to listen to 2 hours of the sainted one on Saturday. Recovery is hard going, but I'll do it

i was going to tease you by putting a "therapeutic" link to one of his Youtube videos, but couldn't bring myself to torture you further!

Our reader said yesterday "i was a bit upset you haven't put down Shine Jesus Shine for today"
It wasn't till he did the sermon (about the Transfiguration) that i worked out why it was relevant! [d'oh] (and even then, it was only because he specifically said "Jesus shone ")
Besides which, we'd had it only a month ago.

hahahaha (manic laughter at thought of encountering GK on Youtube at this moment)

lol at Shine Jesus Shine for trasnsfiguration. Spose it kind of fits. Except it's been so overdone for ever that it just doesn't do it for me any more. Sorry GK

yes, of course , i was thinking the whole time "but it's about Jesus being a candle!" (the light of the world, see)

But then I get some proper mad word-association reasons for picking hymns.
usually DH does this > and chooses the hymns he wants to. (spoil sport)

I get one in every now and then - last year when they did the reading on the Lord's Prayer, I got him to do the Caribbean Our Father (i think i typed it out earlier this thread, or on the last one), because we used to do it at school and i loved it.
and this month, he's let me choose "As water for the thirsty" which is Tim Dudley-smith, and I'm the only person who knows it (apparently - it's in Common Praise, though, so I'm surprised he doesn't know it...)

I don't think I know that one either nickel.

How is your day going? Have been dozing the day away but feel a bit better now. :)

ooh, it's lovely.

"As water to the thirsty,
as beauty to the eyes,
as strength that follows weakness,
as truth instead of lies,
as song-time and spring-time
and summer-time to be,
so is my Lord,
my living Lord,
so is my Lord to me.

Like calm in place of clamour,
like peace that follows pain,
like meeting after parting,
like sunshine after rain,
like moonlight and starlight
and sunlight on the sea,
so is my Lord,
my living Lord,
so is my Lord to me.

As sleep that follows fever,
as gold instead of grey,
as freedom after bondage,
as sunrise to the day,
as home to the traveller
and all we long to see,
so is my Lord,
my living Lord,
so is my Lord to me.
"

my day has been quite quiet, but not dead, because people are buying expensive books (thank you History of Murston at £14.99 )
I'm waiting for DH - he's got overtime today, and i don't know how long that will be, and I have eaten 3 biscuits to stave off the hunger till he gets here.

(because he comes to the shop so we can have lunch together)

Aww that is lovely

I am ill, I am allowed to get teary over song lyrics

Any youtube links?

there aren't any that do it justice, but , as in you can hear the tune

and i like this one
but it sounds comfusing because you can hear all the parts, but it's a nice version.

I like the second one better, first one somewhat painful but yes you can hear the tune, can see it's good :)

yes, i like the second - beautiful singing , but i wanted to show you the one with the tune, even thogh the poor girls singing it shouldn't have been put on youtube.

morning all!

Morning :)

Morning! Quite a bit better this morning, and it's sunny outside. DD however is gutted as she is missing her trip to cadbury world, with school today. She is a lot better but not up to that yet. House is a tip, I'm ill for a few days and it goes to pot, dh is fabulous but he just doesn't seem to see mess

How are you feeling today nickel?

Afternoon

And a [stdavid] all round for you all.

OH NO!!! Where have the daffs gone???

MHD It could mean that YOU have to take her cadbury world instead. Any excuse would do for me!!

Hello - sorry have been AWOL, combination of knackeredness, stress, kids (they're fine - just finding them hard going at the moment) and general getting p*ssed off annoyed with MN.....

Will try and catch up - however chahnces are I'll just jump in.

PA, yes we are planning to take her next week to make up for it, ds will love it too and we have family in Birmingham so will make a day of it :)

Weren't the daffs ? Think they've gone though. Huh

Baroque, great to see you, have been wondering if you were ok, do just jump in, we've only been wittering on in our usual manner

feeling a bit more positive, thanks!

I went to the school this morning and had a wonderful time.

just hoping that the weird woman who is talking at me will leave.
jesus! that woman is soooo annoying - she stands and tells me all this stuff, but only ever half a story, then makes all these incorrect assumptions about me and my family, then expects me to agree with her!

good, she's gone.

back to the school visit!

I really enjoyed it - spent about an hour there (and was later opening than my sign said I would be! ), and sold £100 of books to the school (after discount), and gave out World Book Day books. The kids were great about it all, not trying to get more books than tehy were allowed (having said that, I told the teacher they could have 3 each if they wanted (only 8 in the school), and they had to write their names in their books so that they knew they were theirs to keep, and they had plenty of tokens, so they all knew they had to swap the tokesn for the books)

do you need help catching up, B ?
Mary and I are having nervous breakdowns, MHD luuuurves Graham Kendrick, Besty's church has split personality, PA is maintaining a PA (or should she be having a nervous breakdown with us??), Mary's DD is a very talented singer (having got her blue medal)

there is more, but I can't remember any details!

hehe thanks for the update nickel

I came t a realisation yesterday morning (having slept more than 3 or 4 hours for the first time in quite a while) that my slatternlyness is largely determined by my sleep. I'd nagged at the boys a bit last week to help tidy- but nothing was really done. I woke up yesterday morning and was at the state of my house. It's almost like I can't see it when I'm so tired from insomnia that I can't do anything about it as I don't realise how bad it is.

Was really rather as well when I realised how terrible it was, managed to sleep a bit last night too so thankfully am pottering through it all now - but OMG!!

well, i seem to remember the slatterns thread said take it one task at a time.

DS1 is old enough to pitch in and help - do yo ugive him pocket money? then get him to earn it, 5p per task, or something (i'm very stingy - I got 5p per task when I was a child! )

and make a tick list - my friend has always done this - everything she needs to do, from getting up and showering, to shopping, to cleaning tasks, to visting friends!
she has it all on one list, and everytime she completes one, she ticks it off (or crosses through it)
She tells me it's the only way she can keep track of everything.
(and she comes across as a very organised person, and that's exactly why! without her list, she wouldn't get anything done)