Re: [Worship] children?

[IEDJ123@aol.com]

In a message dated 98-05-30 12:13:51 EDT, Gary wrote:

<< Ingrid said:
 
 "when you are up front every week you are in a glass bowel and will be
 judged"
                                                                     
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 Yikes!!   :-) >>


Gary-----   what a difference a little vowel will make!!!!!!!!!    I laughed
pretty hard myself......there are people in this world who are born good
spellers and people like me who need spell check!!!!!!!!  (wait until my
husband heres what I did....I will not hear the end of it!!!!!!!)    

....but please there are days when life in the pastor's household is more like
living in a 'bowel' than a 'bowl'

....so let me tell you all a funny story about much a life that you all will
enjoy... 

Two summers ago my husband and I and 3 kids decided to join friends from
church and their kids at his parent's lakefront cottage for a couple of days
of needed R&R before the fall start happened......we spent the day waterskiing
and having fun....put the kids all to bed and started planning cards....my
friend Lisa picked up a water balloon and threw it at my husband....and war
was on....to a cup... my husband Fred runs out side and grabs a bucket runs
down in the pitch dark to the dock...slips ...stradles the dock on the way
down (are you now freaking out fellows?)...falls in...comes back in....we are
laughing hysterially...until I see blood where it should not be.....end up in
the emergency room...he has ruptured his uretha.....he now has a super-pubic
catheter in and down for the count....and Sunday is 2 days away...what do you
tell the congregation???? so I get up and tell them what I just told you  (and
all the males in the place let out a collective groan...).   His former team
pastor in our former congregation told that church "Pastor Fred was goofing
off (as Pastor Fred is known to do) and slipped and fell and hurt himself in
an area that I am not at liberty to tell"....like there was no discussion as
to what that was.....da.   A couple of days later the sectretary from that
church  calls us up and says to fred...that she wanted to see for herself if
the rumor that was flying around was true or not.....was he or was he not
'castrated'???  catheter-castration...... oh did we laugh!!!!!!!....       
    .....oh and one of our deacons sent a card with the following
inscribtion....'sorry to hear about your failed attempt to walk on water...'

Life in the eye of the congregation some times may stink!  Some times the lack
of privacy is hard.   But leaders who can laugh at their own mistakes and
situations make their own lives easier.

.....oh and yes it all works wonderfully again.....I know you were
wondering....everyone else asked as well!

worshipping a God who gave us the blessing of laughter
Ingrid DeJong                                      
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