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Sunday, August 27th, 2006 02:15 pmAfter spending yesterday feeling like my internal organs were all moving around into different positions as if they were mutant living room furniture, I finally felt well enough this morning to get to a local church service (late). Turns out that the building I thought my parents might've met in is actually a little bit too new. Congregation's been around a while, though, so maybe a little research will tell me where the church met before their current meeting place was built. Funny how you can be utterly incurious about something for years till you realize that you can find out the info after all--and then suddenly it's vital that you get that information, even if it's information with no practical value at all.
The sermon this morning was exactly what I needed to hear, though now I can't remember any of it. One thing that kept coming to mind at various points is that there is just too much mean-spiritedness in my surroundings these days, much of the worst of it from people who are convinced they're not judgmental or mean-spirited at all. Of course the word "judgmental" is such a term of opprobrium these days that pretty much anyone who uses the word to refer to someone else is guaranteed to be judgmental themselves. This blanket statement covers me too, of course. Bleh. Need to do more work on that.
After church was an ice cream social, where I piled on too many toppings and had fun talking to an older woman from DC, comparing health problems. Heh.
Too much ice cream. Need protein. Want pizza.
The sermon this morning was exactly what I needed to hear, though now I can't remember any of it. One thing that kept coming to mind at various points is that there is just too much mean-spiritedness in my surroundings these days, much of the worst of it from people who are convinced they're not judgmental or mean-spirited at all. Of course the word "judgmental" is such a term of opprobrium these days that pretty much anyone who uses the word to refer to someone else is guaranteed to be judgmental themselves. This blanket statement covers me too, of course. Bleh. Need to do more work on that.
After church was an ice cream social, where I piled on too many toppings and had fun talking to an older woman from DC, comparing health problems. Heh.
Too much ice cream. Need protein. Want pizza.