A Curious Girl: The making of the fellowship

I went to Church this morning (it's so nice having Sunday off work!!!) It was good :)

Anne (sunday school type person) told a story about a little girl who had this bag of worries that followed her everywhere. God has the strangest sense of humour :) I don't know, it just fit really well with what I was feeling, even though it was totally aimed at the kiddies.

And then... Claire (from GB and D of E) rushed up to me and hugged me, and said hello in a manner suggesting she was really pleased to see me... it was really nice, sometimes I do feel a bit like the odd one out in the group. The Anglican minister (vicar?) from the church nearby preached (our minister was at their church). He preached on the Prodigal (lost) Son... talking about how God lavishes his love on us if we will receive it. About having nothing and having everything. I liked it :)

And Alison (our Minister's wife!) sang 'The Father's Song' by Matt Redman.

And at the end, she asked the organist to play 'Praise my soul the King of Heaven'... and Charlie and Claire were rushing off to sell tickets for our concert - I went with them, but I wish I'd stayed. I wanted to praise God, so why did I cut myself short? 'Martha, Martha, you are worried and concerned about many things but only one thing is important...'

Afterwards, as I was with Charlie and Claire and Abigail, Vera came up to me and started chatting. I don't know Vera very well, but I suspect she knows me, she sent me a card for my baptism, as well as being always generally very friendly! Not that I mind! She asked how I was, and I almost told her about my worries and burdens and things, but instead I held back and did the fine act, but we had a nice little chat anyway, about jobs, and witnessing and stuff :-) and I realised what my problem is with Church. It's that I so rarely get to talk to people. It's turn up, do service, go. I'll just have to ask Clive to pick me up ten minutes later from now on, I think :-) It's so difficult to be a fellowship when Clive/Mum don't realise how I feel and want me to be out on time and not waste time chatting... grr, my church is more than my Christian school friends, more than just the service, but I guess from their experience of Church, they wouldn't realise that.

Anyway... for you avid Harry Potter fans, I noticed a similarity between a certain occurrence in Goblet of Fire (NB - do not read this if you haven't read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire!) and a certain Bible story. So I wrote about it :) read it here!!

Actually I'm thinking of doing a Harry Potter/Christianity site at some point... I think that would be highly interesting :). Not a debate on whether it encourages forbidden practices and stuff (never mind the fact that the information in the books could not teach anyone how to do it, and do not resemble real life witchcraft at all!) but on some interesting Biblical parallels... yeah, that would be fun :)

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