Categories: uncategorized
Date: 29 November 2004 18:48:33
Yesterday I had to admit that there are some things I just can't do because (i) I haven't got a decent ladder and (ii) I'm a bit of a pathetic girly when it comes to heights & stuff. There is one room in the house where I can't reach to change the lightbulb, so I had to admit this & ask a friend from church to come & help.
Now I felt a bit daft, but I suppose actually it does me good to learn that however together and independant I want to be I'm not an island & sometimes I have to admit I need a bit of a hand with stuff. Still it's one of those things I hate to have to do.
I guess that's one of the good things about being in "formal church" though I know that there are a ready supply of people I can ask to do me a favour like that when I'm really stuck, although I do worry that people think I'm taking advantage (not that I make a habit of asking for help, infact I had gone without the lightbulbs for about a week & it was only when the fuse went in my tiny lamp aswell I really knew I had no choice but to swallow hard & admit I needed a hand).
Guess I'm learning that community is about being there for each other in a practical sense aswell as an emotional sense which I guess I find easier (basically I can do hugs, but anything else is a bit well, you know, real).