little miss church
sometimes my gran can be so dry without realising it and i laugh and laugh for days at what she says (which is sometimes uncomfortable because she usually says these things in church and nuns are very good at giving you the disdainful shrivelling look that makes you feel as though you have sinned beyond reproach)
yesterday at christmas mass (yes... once again... nobody wanted to go to midnight mass with me because they were sloshed out on brandy tipsy tart and so we ended up going to the frigging mass at DAWN (apt). the new priest (i am sure this is such blasphemony but i find him slightly irritating.) its weird - the irish priests all seem to know so much more and dont speak twaddle like the south african ones seem to. he was going on and on about how south africa has become consumed by materialism and secularism and THEN proceeds to call all the children up to the alter and ask them what they got for christmas. it just didnt gel and it didnt mesh with my love of pomp and ceremony that goes along with catholicism. anyhoo, there's this one little girl who pushed all the other children out of the way so that she could get to the front of the church before anyone else and she started bossing the deacon around. gran rolled her eyes and said in a sigh
'there goes little miss church again' ... it reminded me of 'little miss sunshine' a movie i LOVED and i canned my way through the rest of the ceremony (i think it was more exhaustion that hysterics)
but now i'm internally naming people things again. i'm very much a nickname giver - i like them better than people's real names... i mean chewy pen boy! how cool? ;)
it is almost 2007 - i think it will be a good year. i mean, lover of even numbers, acknowledge that 7 is a great number! plus 27 is my family lucky number. but apart from superstitious encouragements, i think it will be a good year because of the opportunities that abound! my gran is always telling me about 'growth years'... she says that being headmistress she got to see a lot of growth in young'uns but that there are specific years for everyone where they grow within themselves. 2006 was a growth year for me. i'm a lot calmer. a lot less judgemental but also a lot more weary of people. Obvious as it may sound, i realised how much i dont know (no no Mike - my brother - i AM still always right without a shadow of a doubt, but sometimes i just need some tweaking in opinion). i realised this year how much deeper everything goes - i'm the kind of person who believes that we are prone to overcomplicate things - dont make things harder than they are. its dumb. but at the same time - people cannot be immediately summed up. things go deeper than simple surface measures. (which is a nice way of saying that i've become a little wearier trusting people immediately)
2007 - have a good year! and make it interesting so that none of you phone me up with boring ass stories ;) just kidding, i love the phone! phone me! phone me now! seriously... at work... its boring
xx
posted by sarah @ 5:07 AM
6 Comments:
what a lovely post sarah... deep and thought-provoking with lovely insight into yourself. nice one... ;)
sorry bout the church thing. i'm very glad that you're shaking off your catholic guilt day-by-day. i feel that the church instills in people that one cannot disagree with the CHURCH and it's teachings, and this isn't true IMO.
priests are human beings with their own opinions and interpretations of the bible's teachings.. the fact that they are priests does not give them demi-god status and what they say is merely their view of the bible. sometimes one agrees with their interpreations, and sometimes one doesn't.
so if you feel the need to stand up and disagree with what they say, i don't think you should view it as being blasphemous at all because your opinion should count just as highly as theirs does. :)
ps... i hope you like this comment. i have been as diplomatic as possible.
Hee hee, little miss church!
Happy New Year! sms me when you're bored and then I'll phone you, ok? I'm not glued to the internet anymore since I'm not at wits 24/7.
You reminded me of a fine quote:
"My opinions may change, but the fact that I am right does not."
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.
does anyone feel like taking the Buy Nothing New challenge for the new year of 2007? i was reading about it on jeff's blog. i will if you will!
Sarah! I try and come visit you but every time I do, you are either leaving or have closed the store already!
I'll have to try again.
I totally don't think that it is wrong to get really annoyed at the priest! I live with a wannabe priest and he bugs me all the time (not quite the same, I know!). Besides, as tom pointed out, they are only human and most people irritate the crap out of me! :)
i loved little miss sunshine. that girl in the movie is so damn cute i went to the video store to take out this lame kids movie with her in it about two orphan girls who find a dog but have to hide him away from the controlling and allergic adults. dumb but well worth my five rand to see little miss sunshine waltz around screen in all her glorified cuteness. adorable. but i totally hear what you're saying bout how wack church can sometimes be. preaching about how wrong materialism is only to later encourage it. bizarre. what happened to christmas being the birth of jesus. its like at the bottom of the list after presents, christmas trees, sunday lunch, christmas crackers and public holidays. oh and pudding. you can't forget that pudding. on that note i have never been able to stomach custard again since i left boarding school. and only recently have i been able to eat apple pie.
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