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Date: 03 November 2005 11:47:05
Next Thursday (10th) sees the annual meeting for the election of officers. Having mentioned the need for greater involvement in the affairs of the fellowship I have, of course, booked the wife and I to fly to Berlin that afternoon. There is something to be said for practising what you preach!!!!
I have had offers to have a request made for the meeting to be delayed until I can attend. To me that sounds like favouritism as they wouldn't do that for anyone else. As the meeting has been announced why would I expect everyone else to be inconvenienced to accomodate my thoughtlessness. Its hard enough to get people to attend without me messing with arrangements.
I shall of course blame my absence on the wife's insistance that we go away for the weekend of her birthday. This is for 2 reasons:
1. It covers up my forgetting that the church meeting was on the date I booked the flight for;
2. All her friends will expect me to do this and sympathise with her for the callousness of her husband.
Then again, if her friends should read this then the game's up!!! But what are the chances of that happening?
Of course, her friends would never stand for this sort of treatment by their husbands. After all, most of them have ensured that they wear the trousers in their relationships. Or so they think.....
I will however have my spies firmly entrenched at the meeting and expect regular reports to insure that nothing major is decided that the deacons have not already decided. In fact, unless items are notified in advance, nothing new can be put on the agenda. This makes me think that Stalinism is alive and well and inhabiting the church culture of Wales.
Didn't that great humanitarian and lover of the Soviet people, Stalin, say that it didn't matter how people vote, its who counts the votes that makes the difference? Wise words for all church members to think on.