A Curious Girl: What exactly does the Holy Spirit smell like?

For some reason, I was once searching for the lyrics to 'Smells like Teen Spirit'. (Dunno why. It's a song that Abi always used to sing. I think it was because it was one of the songs I thought of on one of those 'First four songs that pop into your head' questionnaires.)

I found Re-versred lyrics, sadly now disabled, with a 'Christian version' that made me laugh so hard I saved it.

“Smells like Holy Spirit”

(can be sung to the tune of "Smells like Teen Spirit ")

In His Glory, it´s less dangerous
He is risen, exon´rate us
Jesus´s love is so contagious
He is risen, exon´rate us

The Mesiah
He´s no liah
Praise Him or face
Eternal Fire

Yeah

Halle-Halle-Halle-lujah
Halle-Halle-Halle-lujah
Halle-Halle-Halle-lujah
Halle-Halle-Halle

I´m inspired, I´ve aflatus
Two thousand years; that´s some hiatus
Evolutionary theorists, come debate us
God´s the Man, He...did create us
We´re His fish - watch Him come bait us

Yeah

Underneath, I noted that The words ‘too incredibly funny to be true’ spring to mind

Turns out I was right... The song had been made up as a joke, as I found out here. Which didn't stop Ship of Fools using a slightly more tuneful version of the song for Ned Flanders Night at Greenbelt, but I suspect they wouldn't have minded if they'd known...

But also following that link, I discovered something so incredibly funny that it was true. Re-versed Lyrics takes itself seriously. *chuckles* They put 'Smells like Holy Spirit' on their site as a true worship song.

Which probably has a moral somewhere. It's sort of encouraging to know that people praise God using what the rest of us think is a joke.

On that topic, we sang a worship song to the tune of the 'Flintstones' at church yesterday. Heehee. Not a bad little song actually, quite rhythmic.

My cousins came over yesterday. Well, so did their parents, but it wasn't Andrew and Maria who spent a considerable length of time mobbing me. I love them... But lack of sleep (my own fault, I got msn messenger! yay!) and spending a great amounnt to time tumbling around with them, I fell asleep on the sofa whilst they were watching Count Duckula. Shame, because there were a couple of episodes I haven't see in years.

It's nice to be back. I miss Matthew but he calls me quite a lot :) The food is good (and I don't have to pay for it), it's good to talk to my parents and Mum and I watched Shrek on Saturday. Mum hadn't seen it before, she didn't like the gross bits as much as I do :) but she enjoyed it.

I'm using a laptop now - Dad got me one and I presume he's getting rid of my old computer. The keyboard's a bit awkward, but I like the 'mouse' even if I now have no use for the pretty mousepad Nicky and Jonathan got me for my 18th. Which is a shame, although it could make a nice coaster :) It'll be good to be able to take it with me to places too.

I read an article about Watson and Crick's discovery of DNA today. It was really interesting, I keep meaning to get a copy of Watson's 'The Double Helix' and read it, it's nice that Watson, Crick and Wilkins are still around so we can learn all about them as people, because often methods are just as important as discovery. It's good knowing how they did it. It's also rather comforting that Rosalind Franklin, who did some of the most important X-ray crystallography work towards the discovery, did not think to put together the structure herself, because she's always cast as the oppressed, forgotten one. I read that after the discovery she became friends of Watson and Crick. It's a shame she died so young, but on the other hand, I'm glad the situation wasn't as unjust as people often make out.

James Watson said that "I came to the conclusion that the Church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead." *sigh* The sad thing is, I think I know how he felt. Everything's so complicated - and sometimes it feels that there's much more of God in a bird than there is in a church.

But, as Adrian Plass once aptly said, "Have you ever known those moments when, just as you're witnessing some unusually crass piece of behaviour on the part of what's called the Christian church, and you're about to turn away from the whole thing in disgust, you become aware that Jesus himself is watching the same thing over your shoulder and shaking his head as despairingly as you are? It's not easy to trudge dolefully away from an entire faith system when its founder trudges dolefully away beside you." Behind the organisation, which works for either good or bad, or not at all, there's God. Who works all the time, for good, down to the smallest detail. As my Bible puts it "Two sparrows cost only a penny, but not even one of them can die without your Father's knowing it." He is, after all, a birdwatcher. And if he cares about birds, he cares about us, as Jesus assures us, "You are worth much more than many sparrows."

Random word for today: ornithology

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