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Date: 25 August 2007 20:11:03
I didn't particularly want to preach at that church tomorrow and had made heavy weather of planning my sermon. Not that it wasn't a hard subject to preach on anyway. And the way you work with the worship leaders there proved inhibiting to me, control freak that I am. Basically, they plan the service and then send you an order of service with the bits highlighted which they want you to do, and with guidelines on the theme of the sermon too. You're free to get back to them and make adjustments, but it is not a way I feel easy with working... I mean, this is the woman who likes to "interpret" the national curriculum guidelines so that they actually fit what she wanted to do in the first place! ;-)
But what I didn't have in mind was that I'd end up emailing them my sermon for someone else to read aloud.
I went to the dentist for a filling on Friday and can only suspect that it's triggered an abcess or something as my face is throbbing and numb, my mouth doesn't want to open very wide (wide enough for toast but not wide enough for a new potato!) and my tooth is sending angry messages to my brain. I feel as though I've gone ten rounds with Mike Tyson. Needless to say, I rang the emergency dentist just after they'd closed so I have to wait at least until tomorrow morning. Which means, of course, that I'll have to miss church as the emergency dentist only works mornings.
Still, at least I'll have a lie in. :-S