Chaos on Sabbath :(
This Sabbath was not very enjoyable for me. Church service was good. I had the kids. I prepared myself really well, but since they listened to me so fast and they weren't talking as much as usual I was done faster than I should have, so I let them repeat the story that they heard. We even played it so they can experience biblical stories themselves. I think they liked it. Then we had Eucharist service today therefore church took about 30 minutes longer. We ate at church so that we don't have to drive as much and save ourselves about an hour.
We kind of had an argument about how to have our Andachts, and why it is always not working out the way it is supposed to be. I hope that if I will have children myself, I will do a better job. We will see. I got my involvement in church brass settled. I am definitely not doing chorus next year. It will be too much. I am glad that the brass leader is so understanding. I will only have to go every other week. This will save me a lot of time. Maybe I will even take my laptop with me sometimes when I have to wait for my parents, so that I can blog in church while waiting for the rest of my family to finish chorus rehearsal. If not my laptop I will definitely take my violin and practice there. This will be really great. I hope I will have a lot of time next year for practice.
At 1:45 we left the church to pick up my sister from Diepoldsburg. All the parents had to pick up their children from there. I think there were about 40 kids participating in the KiSiWo this year. This seems to be a really great opportunity for children to get involved with their talents and abilities. I saw them playing the recorders, drums, trombones and trumpets, violins, celloes. This was the enjoyable part of it. Not so enjoyable was the fact that they didn't have all their props ready yet, so they needed to paint this, set up that and they rehearsed on Sabbath! This annoyed me a lot. It also made me sad, because I realized where all of this is getting. I pledged to myself that, no matter how inconvenient it is going to be for me, I will not practice on Saturday afternoons anymore, not even for Adventus Domini. Playing for fun is fine and I will gladly participate in that, but not in practice. God has made the 7th day -Sabbath- for the humans to rest and he made it HOLY. Are we keeping Sabbath holy, by having so much stress to run through the program, practicing this and that over and over again? No, definitely not. Therefore I will not support this anymore. I am still counting myself as a Seventh-Day-Adventist and I strongly agree with keeping the Sabbath, therefore I have to do it right. If I do it just half way, I might as well forget it completely. I am sorry for all the times that I failed to keep it correctly as far as my understanding was... I am glad that God forgives failures as long as we regret them.
The performance was ok. They did a really good job even though they were nervous and forgot their text several times. They only had 5 days to learn all of that. None of them knew the music or texts before.
After the performance I got to talk to several people which was kind of enjoyable and then we finally left. yayay. We got home around 8pm and then I started talking to you.
And now I am writing this blog to finish up this day.
We kind of had an argument about how to have our Andachts, and why it is always not working out the way it is supposed to be. I hope that if I will have children myself, I will do a better job. We will see. I got my involvement in church brass settled. I am definitely not doing chorus next year. It will be too much. I am glad that the brass leader is so understanding. I will only have to go every other week. This will save me a lot of time. Maybe I will even take my laptop with me sometimes when I have to wait for my parents, so that I can blog in church while waiting for the rest of my family to finish chorus rehearsal. If not my laptop I will definitely take my violin and practice there. This will be really great. I hope I will have a lot of time next year for practice.
At 1:45 we left the church to pick up my sister from Diepoldsburg. All the parents had to pick up their children from there. I think there were about 40 kids participating in the KiSiWo this year. This seems to be a really great opportunity for children to get involved with their talents and abilities. I saw them playing the recorders, drums, trombones and trumpets, violins, celloes. This was the enjoyable part of it. Not so enjoyable was the fact that they didn't have all their props ready yet, so they needed to paint this, set up that and they rehearsed on Sabbath! This annoyed me a lot. It also made me sad, because I realized where all of this is getting. I pledged to myself that, no matter how inconvenient it is going to be for me, I will not practice on Saturday afternoons anymore, not even for Adventus Domini. Playing for fun is fine and I will gladly participate in that, but not in practice. God has made the 7th day -Sabbath- for the humans to rest and he made it HOLY. Are we keeping Sabbath holy, by having so much stress to run through the program, practicing this and that over and over again? No, definitely not. Therefore I will not support this anymore. I am still counting myself as a Seventh-Day-Adventist and I strongly agree with keeping the Sabbath, therefore I have to do it right. If I do it just half way, I might as well forget it completely. I am sorry for all the times that I failed to keep it correctly as far as my understanding was... I am glad that God forgives failures as long as we regret them.
The performance was ok. They did a really good job even though they were nervous and forgot their text several times. They only had 5 days to learn all of that. None of them knew the music or texts before.
After the performance I got to talk to several people which was kind of enjoyable and then we finally left. yayay. We got home around 8pm and then I started talking to you.
And now I am writing this blog to finish up this day.
posted by Kerstin @ 11:40 PM
1 Comments:
At 11/9/05 05:12,
Anonym said…
I'm so sorry that some of the events of today weren't enjoyable for you. But you know what... we witness and experience everything in our life for a reason or even for many reasons. I think clarified things for you or at least made you stronger for what you believe it. Now you have a definite and clear position for yourself. I think you can be even more proud of that because you have pledged to be strong about it. I really admire and respect this quality in you! Thanks for being who you are.
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