take a little note

In Church today we were supposed to write down our sins and burdens and nail them to the cross before the slamming of the book signifying Christ’s death.

It was really difficult. It was really difficult to do because they gave me such a small piece of paper. I was tempted to nail my laptop to the cross. It was also difficult not to peek at what the person sitting next to me had written down. He leaned over and whispered, “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours.” I let him see mine. I had written down, veritas vos liberabit, or the truth will set you free. I did not look at his, God knows I wanted to, but I felt dishonest as I felt this exercise was unnecessary and had not actually written down my sins or burdens. God knows.

We went up to nail them at our leisure. I went up to nail my paper to the cross – it was one thing to not write your sins down but it was another to note go up at all – and when I came back, I noticed that he had written his sins resting on his worship folder. You could have done a rubbing of his sins on another sheet of paper. That was tough, I am nosey, but it would have been too dishonest, even for me.

Chaos Bean, however, is still in church trying to squeeze it all on one piece of paper.

Comments

[liz]

Nailing your sins to the cross! That is for all the visual learners in the congregation, no doubt. Makes me think of when the nuns used to tell us that everytime you sin, you drive the crown of thorns deeper into Jesus' head. Ouch.

[l'empress]

You're doing Yom Kippur on Easter Saturday? Of course, we don't write our sins on Yom Kippur, because we don't write at all on solemn holidays. We just stand up and ask forgiveness for *every* sin we can think of. Because *someone* might be guilty of it. Humorous, in its way.

[Suburban Island]

You make me laugh! Great entry.

[Sally]

9 days, and you and your sister are still ominously silent. Still in church scribbling away, apparently. Do they MAKE that much paper?