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Date: 04 February 2007 14:54:49
to (mis) quote Adrian Plass: '...from affluent to effluent: I felt moved on leaving church this morning [yet another apalling pun!] to share the anecdote of my prayer book and the toilet To be more accurate, my prayer book DOWN the toilet. This was a while ago, you may have heard it before. Basically I was in the loo early one morning, reading my prayer book (as you do?) when on rising, it fell out of my dressing-gown pocket and descended into the miry depths.
So when as part of an excellent sermon on Reading The Bible, the preacher mentioned the oft-quoted fact that it's said that some Christians spend more time on the loo than reading God's Word, I felt the urge to warn him of the dangers of becoming too enthusiastic. Well, it WAS intended to be encouraging, and rather more constructive than the much-maligned 'Nice sermon, vicar.'
Something I read last week, spoke about the dangers of losing your sense of joy, of playfulness with God, and this really did strike a chord with me. Life's not bad atm - maybe it's just January - ok - February blues, but a bit grey and porridge-like and woefully short of fun. So I have to take my laughs where I can find them! Anyone glancing my way post-communion might have been impressed by the sight of Yours Truly crouched in her customary shampoo position, deep in prayer. Little did they know! Either I have a severely warped sense of humour or so does God!