Getting Back To Work
Phew! Isn’t it difficult to get back to work!
Yesterday, taking just a couple of services, was fine. But not so easy today. I walked to the next village carrying my laptop in order to lead the first Lent group. I’ve got five BBC radio plays about the life of Jesus, set in the first century but with a modern dialogue, speech idioms and regional accents. It’s really powerful and gives a whole new look at the events and the life of Jesus.
Two people turned up.
This may be partly my fault. I put an article in the Februrary church magazine, but forgot to ask for it to be repeated in the March issue – so it wasn’t! Nobody remembers anything for a whole month, so there we are. Felt like a bit of a waste of time, but we had a good lunch afterwards and one or two more turned up for that.
Then, when I got home, there was a phone call from an elderly parishioner asking what happened to the eleven o’clock service yesterday at the smallest parish. It had been cancelled while I was away because no-one (they said) would be there, but nobody had thought to ring this elderly man who with his wife, arrived promptly at eleven for the service.
Ah well. These things happen. Usually on the first day when I get back…
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