in the house

One of the “start of year” tasks that teachers need to perform is breaking the kids into being in school again; this traditionally takes from September until June – or August until May, if you are in the interior. One of the things unique to my teaching situation is teaching the children to behave in church.

I had the children all lined up outside the chapel door and we were about to go in when the Senior Pastor said to my children, “I need you to be very quiet when you go into the church.” One of them asked why and he told them, “The people in there are all asleep.”

Before the matins started, I leaned forward and chided a child; “Get your feet off the furniture! Do you put your feet on the furniture at home?” He replied that, indeed, he did. I said, “Well, you are in Jesus’ house and the Virgin Mary is going to be pissed if she sees scuff marks on the furniture, put your feet down!”

While we are on the topic of in-church behavior, I would like to not that my schools is directly next door to a Lutheran Church of a different flavor. This other variety of Lutheran ordains women and while I agree with doing that, my church does not. If I were a woman pastor a stones thrown at you away from a church that disagrees with the ordination of women, I would not wear a miniskirt with my clerical collar. Actually, I would, but if I were someone in the business of representing God and building bridges, I would wear a skirt that hit my knees or trousers.

Comments

[Yvonne]

I don't know. I mean as long as the undies matched the clerical collar, it might not be such a bad combo!