Wall O' Blessing
so, church family right?
Yesterday was a fun day for me. I was dubbed the official representative of the Alvin to scurry near and far and glean any candles from flower shops willing to donate to our churchly cause. What is that cause prey tell? Well, it's a really awesome idea that the worship team came up with. Three times a year (Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years) we assemble a blessing wall. During Wednesday nights before each holiday, we spend time in praise and worship with various singings, prayers, blessings from the shepherds, scripture readings and such. Then a few people hand out special pieces of paper for us to write how God has blessed us through someone in the church family. After we write the blessing on the paper, we put it up on the wall so that everyone has a chance to see how members of the church family bless others.
Tonight we added a little candlelighting ceromony to it. The objective was to recognize friendships blessed by God. We turned out the lights, and started singing songs (clayton chapel style) and everyone was invited to grab a friend and walk up front and light a candle together. It was good for me because I saw these people with different opinions, beliefs, traditions, etc walking up together willingly to light a candle representing their relationship blessed by God. At the end of the lighting, a table with 50 blazing candles stood lighting up the room with a dark, velvety glow. We continued to praise God and talk to him by the candlelight. It was very comforting for me after a stressfull week of work, worry, and travel. I hope we get to do it again soon!
So Friday, the provider of the womb that bore me is celebrating her birthday! Alas, I'm working that day, so i thought it nice to go home and celebrate it with her tomorrow! I plan on performing a good ole texan bbq complete with sugarfree ice cream cake from MarbleSlab cremery (operantly owned and operated by a Oriental dude). Does anyone else get the feeling that the orientals are taking over America very slowly through economical means? It scares me, but I have to die sometime anyway, right?
---Potter
Yesterday was a fun day for me. I was dubbed the official representative of the Alvin to scurry near and far and glean any candles from flower shops willing to donate to our churchly cause. What is that cause prey tell? Well, it's a really awesome idea that the worship team came up with. Three times a year (Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years) we assemble a blessing wall. During Wednesday nights before each holiday, we spend time in praise and worship with various singings, prayers, blessings from the shepherds, scripture readings and such. Then a few people hand out special pieces of paper for us to write how God has blessed us through someone in the church family. After we write the blessing on the paper, we put it up on the wall so that everyone has a chance to see how members of the church family bless others.
Tonight we added a little candlelighting ceromony to it. The objective was to recognize friendships blessed by God. We turned out the lights, and started singing songs (clayton chapel style) and everyone was invited to grab a friend and walk up front and light a candle together. It was good for me because I saw these people with different opinions, beliefs, traditions, etc walking up together willingly to light a candle representing their relationship blessed by God. At the end of the lighting, a table with 50 blazing candles stood lighting up the room with a dark, velvety glow. We continued to praise God and talk to him by the candlelight. It was very comforting for me after a stressfull week of work, worry, and travel. I hope we get to do it again soon!
So Friday, the provider of the womb that bore me is celebrating her birthday! Alas, I'm working that day, so i thought it nice to go home and celebrate it with her tomorrow! I plan on performing a good ole texan bbq complete with sugarfree ice cream cake from MarbleSlab cremery (operantly owned and operated by a Oriental dude). Does anyone else get the feeling that the orientals are taking over America very slowly through economical means? It scares me, but I have to die sometime anyway, right?
---Potter
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