Comments on: thanksgiving http://reverendmother.org/2004-11-29/thanksgiving Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:10:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Martha http://reverendmother.org/2004-11-29/thanksgiving#comment-177 Martha Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:52:00 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2004-11-29/thanksgiving#comment-177 Your job sounds pretty darn good right about now! I'm finalizing the Christmas Pageant (script, music, participants and costumes), laying out worship for the next few weeks, and worrying about whether my young musician will ever find a substitute for the morning of the 26th! Ack!! Your job sounds pretty darn good right about now! I’m finalizing the Christmas Pageant (script, music, participants and costumes), laying out worship for the next few weeks, and worrying about whether my young musician will ever find a substitute for the morning of the 26th! Ack!!

]]> By: reverendmother http://reverendmother.org/2004-11-29/thanksgiving#comment-176 reverendmother Tue, 30 Nov 2004 03:39:00 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2004-11-29/thanksgiving#comment-176 There are so many religious ones that I didn't even name them all, but In the Bleak Midwinter is just so gorgeous. We have similar tastes! That was actually my first blog entry. I was just bored at work two days before Christmas and started a blog! Associate pastor is actually the easiest job in the mid- to large-sized church at Christmastime. Secretaries have a jillion bulletins to put together, music directors are preparing tons of music, children's ministry people are working on pageant, and of course the senior pastor has to preach umpteen services, and the associate just basically has to show up. At this stage in my life, I'm enjoying it. There are so many religious ones that I didn’t even name them all, but In the Bleak Midwinter is just so gorgeous. We have similar tastes!

That was actually my first blog entry. I was just bored at work two days before Christmas and started a blog! Associate pastor is actually the easiest job in the mid- to large-sized church at Christmastime. Secretaries have a jillion bulletins to put together, music directors are preparing tons of music, children’s ministry people are working on pageant, and of course the senior pastor has to preach umpteen services, and the associate just basically has to show up.

At this stage in my life, I’m enjoying it.

]]> By: Martha http://reverendmother.org/2004-11-29/thanksgiving#comment-175 Martha Tue, 30 Nov 2004 01:54:00 +0000 http://reverendmother.org/2004-11-29/thanksgiving#comment-175 The songs--my favorite melancholy Christmas carol is "In the Bleak Midwinter." It's still pretty warm here, for some odd reason, but when the first deep chill hits, that's the time for Christina Rossetti. Sounds like a great weekend. My 9-year-old daughter was followed around our Advent workshop by a long line of smaller children, all of whom worship her. She is very patient with them, bless her. The toddler grandson of our Nursery School Director has learned to say her name, although he refers to me as "Mail," the thing he goes to collect for me every weekday morning. I guess I know where I stand! The songs–my favorite melancholy Christmas carol is “In the Bleak Midwinter.” It’s still pretty warm here, for some odd reason, but when the first deep chill hits, that’s the time for Christina Rossetti.

Sounds like a great weekend. My 9-year-old daughter was followed around our Advent workshop by a long line of smaller children, all of whom worship her. She is very patient with them, bless her. The toddler grandson of our Nursery School Director has learned to say her name, although he refers to me as “Mail,” the thing he goes to collect for me every weekday morning.

I guess I know where I stand!

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