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Nancy - that situation sounds really tricky. I wish I could make a helpful suggestion. Sometimes the fact that a difficulty is church related seems to make it extra challenging.




i wish I could offer smm help be
 
Exquisitely ordinary :3

(Not every day can be society-shattering novelties!)

That was Sun

Today was my biweekly fellowship as part of the yardcrew. Spent the day trimming ivy from trees and yakking aboot various things

Looking forward to the 10th when a WHOLE SHWACK OF CHRISTIANS HIKE UP THEIR HUMMINAHS AND ENMASSE DO THEIR CARTAKING AND GARDENING DUTY :3 (the Wisteria is getting airs again)

followed by next day BBQ--who I have been spreading the news aboot esp to the various homeless folx I know of
 
Soft ethics ... there may be more to the posted ends supporting the alternate ...

Too far on one extreme can cause conflicts ... thus gatherings have purpose that is not for hard-shells that hate to expand literacy ... as the Walrus stated ... time comes ...

Do hard times teach about nemesis? It comes down to that buy time! Get a purchase onit/onus?
 
I have led worship three weeks in a row at three different churches. I have been suffering with varying degrees of my cold/respiratory infection at each one. Needless to say, my hoarse voice and occasional cough probably made the congregations suffer too! But yesterday, at a two-point charge, I received so much love and affirmation. The message was a tough one (Jesus using the word hatred in terms of family and life itself!) but somehow, with Help, I hit the right chord with some people. But the neatest thing yesterday was meeting a retired minister from Minnesota. He read scripture, and he read it in the most amazing way: reverent, real, thoughtful, personal. I was absolutely blown away. I thanked him for the gift of his interpretation, and his reading.

This may be the high note I go out on. My husband starts cancer treatments soon, and I won't take any more church services. And yes...I'm no longer licensed to do them, but I still do a few when churches seem desperate. The one yesterday was fun because my mom came...It's where she got married in 1955, and her grandfather built the church.
 
Watched the DRCC service for last Sunday at supper yesterday. Sheldon provided an interesting take on the parable of the potter. It prompted me to write my first reflection in almost 2 weeks.

The potter remade the clay object possibly to make something more appropriate for that piece of clay. The first failure or fault revealed the potter's original goal did not suit the clay as it was so another design was chosen..
 
Small numbers at church again, but still a sense of spirit moving among us. Some older members are not coming because of covid fears or illness. Yet, we have new people in the pews since the summer. And two of the new people participated in worship yesterday. Just wonderful! Two new choir members, a new scripture reader, a person who gives a ride to someone who needs it, one who donates to our pie-making fundraiser, one who fills in at the organ when needed, and one very young person who has happily battled addiction and come 'home' to the church of her Sunday School.
 
Adduction is sever when the opioid receptors are plugged with useless matter ... unconceived drivers ... hollowed out shells?

May resemble ammonites ...
 
I watched church online and enjoyed a sermon story by the Rev Gary Paterson. Very inspiring.

The church we have chosen in town here had a picnic in a local park. I decided to attend. It was nice to connect and see people in person again. It's a very friendly bunch. Right now services are being held in a funeral home chapel that doesn't seem to have good air flow. The new church building is near completion. I will start attending in person when services are held there.
 
Luce NDs said:
Adduction is sever when the opioid receptors are plugged with useless matter ... unconceived drivers ... hollowed out shells?

May resemble ammonites ...
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I continue to join church virtually most Sundays, listening to the service at Hillhurst & sometimes also listening to the sermon from my local church, and sometimes also one or two by preacher friends. This week Hillhurst was talking about the big surprise SNOW in Calgary! Meanwhile it was quite sunny & balmy here :-) They're doing a sermon series on their church windows & people featured therein. This week it was Martha & Mary - interesting & personal reflections offered. Lots to think about.
 
My sister and I did a play on Mary and Martha once in church....It lives on in peoples' memories it would seem! They still talk about it. I was definitely Martha to my sister's Mary.
 
Very interesting and joy filled baptism service in Namur this morning. Two families and three children. One family speaks almost no French and the other is a bilingual Francophone family. I did major parts of the services and all of the baptism part in French. The member who does a major part of the work and her sister found three songs for the service. The song after the baptisms was a ballad which is a children's song. It had many of the people up and dancing and most people singing. They are going to send me a link for the song. The closing song was Que sera and there was some dancing by two brothers of the mother of two of the children. It was a very unusual and very joyful service.
 
Today is the only Sunday in the church year when I deliberately don't attend church. Nor watch on-line.
 
Remembrance. My Dad served in WW2 from the age of 17 to 23. He didn't want it remembered, and he didn't want to remember it, so I honour his memory on this Sunday. I dislike seeing a national flag in the sanctuary, and that ghastly poem is poor poetry and poor morality, in my opinion.
 
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