One busy night in church
I spent the last weekend quite entirely by myself, before going to church yesterday, trying not to get too depressed over life's disappointments*, but I kept coming back to some of the things I posted about during last week, so much so that I knew we were up to a week where we’d have a time of open encouragement at church, so I decided I was going to share it. And, boy, did I let them have it. I shared with everybody Paul Tripp, Psalm 84 vs 11, Charles Spurgeon and the Westminster Confession (or Puritan catechism – how many names does that document have?). I might have been a little OTT. And I might have spoken a wee bit too fast in my flustered nervousness and self-consciousness of having perhaps too much to say. But half a dozen people or so came to speak to me about this afterwards, so that I was glad I had shared in the end.
The other factor with it all was that I was also meeting up with our pastor before church to talk about something specific (that shall be another post) and had listened to a podcast sermon a couple of times in preparation for that, then I was on ProPresenter at church (gone are the days of Power Point) and also on bible reading and the pastor wanted to interview me before I read the bible on what it means to belong to church. So, I set off around 3 pm in the afternoon with such a head full of different things, I thought I might be doing well if I could say the right things in the right place or remember any of it. Then I was trotting up and down the church aisle (which feels interminably long when you are trying to get to the front from the back) in the middle of church from the computer at the back to the microphone up the front. When I hit the last slide button I felt quite relieved.
*I am not usually so pathetic on weekends, but after going away last weekend, feeling tired all week (and there are so many bugs of various sorts going around at work it's a wonder I've avoided them all) I didn't have the wherewithal to initiate anything social. But tonight I am off to the theatre with a friend, just to make my life look sophisticated and interesting.