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Mr Curly
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One has just been asked to take over artistic direction of the Easter presentation that takes place in the centre of Sydney each year.
"Yes!"
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Welease Woderwick
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Congratulations!
One must be very pleased.
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Oh Mr Curly, you will need to import a wonderful actor to play King Herod! Someone from the west! Someone like me!
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Uncle Pete
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Surely Easter means that 1st century aviator, not Herod?
You know, Pontius, The Pilot
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Mr Curly
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I think, Jugs, you would do "mad" very well. I can just hear your voice booming up and down Martin Place, although I was expecting you to suggest a touch of the Ghosty Parrot for somewhere in the presentation.
But not sure anywhere in UC has budget for imported talent at the mo.
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Huia
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Originally posted by Mr Curly:
But not sure anywhere in UC has budget for imported talent at the mo.
mr curly
Pity, at the moment I could do one of the weeping women very well.
Huia of the incontinent eyes ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
ETA - Congrats Mr C --good choice on ther part
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Evangeline
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![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif) Mr C, very exciting.
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Gee D
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Well done, Mr C. I'm trying to think how you could give the whole event a cricketing theme, perhaps with Jugular as 12th man (sorry about that, just to bring the drinks).
Prayers for you Huia - I remember how we felt when my father and Madame's died. The grieving does not come to some miraculous halt at the funeral, and never really ends.
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Oh Huia, I'm so sorry. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
For other losses too.
I've not been on line for what seems like a long time. I am now permanent at Health by the bay and am settling in well. The job is developing with some exciting things to come.
I am now the proud new lessor of a brand new Citroen C4 diesel--or should that be lessee ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
The Welsh choir is going very well and we are off to Wales again in 2015.
Life is good.
P.S., I still don't and never will follow the cats ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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@ PeteC and Mr Curly- I believe the 1st Century Aviator actually sang 'January"
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Huia
JtC good to see you and hear your news. FD and I were wondering recently about how you are getting on
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Originally posted by James the Confident:
P.S., I still don't and never will follow the cats
When in Rome, .... Can't understand why you don't get with the strength, James!
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Banner Lady
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Huia. Would have been my dad's birthday today. No, you don't forget.
I too have a gig for Jugs. Please marry my eldest daughter. She needs a man in her life that can make her laugh. *sigh*
Life is busy and a bit difficult at present. Although I now have a personal chef. TP has been making some very palatable curry dishes, and I am fanning this new talent wholeheartedly.
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I'm sorry, did anyone see the partial solar eclipse this morning (ring of fire)? It must have been something.
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rexory
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So, now it's official. my parish is to go half-time 1st July,and I can't live on half a pay. prayers, please for something to fill the gap, or - preferably - another full-time gig. This is dragging me down emotionally a great deal. B*gger the black dog ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Rexory
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Gee D
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How can you have a half rector? Mrs Edwards, a stalwart of the church for 60 years or more, become seriously ill on a day when you're not there. Who undertakes the pastoral care that you would want to provide to her in what may be her last hours? She can't very well be told that she simply has to wait until next Thursday.
Any chance for you of a chaplaincy position at a school or hospital?
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Rexory and Zappa
Our (Presbyterian) minister when I'm at Matarangi is on a 75% stipend. Apart from pastoral care, this means preaching 3 weeks in 4: 6 lay preachers have dwindled to 4, of which one's gone sailing for a year and I've been stuck in the city. But all sorts of national and Presbytery responsibilities land on her plate – she's off to do a required course his week which she used to run, before she was a parish minister, but now she has to attend the same session.
May the Spirit be with her and with you both.
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Gee D
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Prayers for you Zappa, and also for you and your parish GG.
Zappa, we prayed for Bishop Greg and your diocese this morning. The diocese is our Mission of the Month, and we are hopeful of a good offering. The pastoral care committee is also supporting one of the parishes in the diocese in aspects of its work.
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Galloping Granny
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Originally posted by Gee D:
Prayers for you Zappa, and also for you and your parish GG.
We divide our year between Matarangi and Wellington. Our parish in Wellington is one of many throughout the country who have been told to evacuate their buildings because they are not sufficiently earthquake proof. So while we bring the old wooden church up to 100% safety (the 1957 brick one will be expensive either to strengthen or to demolish), we worship in the atrium at a nearby church school, run a couple of programmes in our neighbouring Anglican church hall, and the minister and secretary have been given the former offices at another Presbyterian church who had built a new suite.
So now we have to decide what we are called to do, and while the practicalities of buildings are a major financial issue, everything must start with Why are we a congregation? What is God wanting us to do, and how are we to go about it?
We're in pretty good heart considering, though the discernment process is a big job to tackle – we have also the situation where our minister has been called to move on, so we must find a new one in the midst of everything else.
A pilgrim people, indeed.
Please pray for us too.
And may the right doors open for Zappa and Rexory, and the support that they need be with them.
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Patdys
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Prayers for you all.
Ministry is a bitch.
I am currently feeling disconnected from the church and that too is a result of my wife's ministry and the demands of my work.
I simply don't have the emotional energy to give at church as well as work and home. I keep coming back the the whole 'season' thing.
It's a time to withdraw after a time of activity.
And I'm OK with that. It will pass.
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Gee D
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We shall, GG. What a predicament, and we had not really known the complications until your post. May your congregation emerge stronger at the end.
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Banner Lady
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Yes, I too am in a crossover season. It is so easy to get cynical about what passes as "community" and "teamwork" in my denomination. But I have discovered one door is closing and two others are opening. In the uncomfortable dark hallway between them, there is some space and grace for recovery.
I suspect most of us need occasional healing time from being church. My prayers to all of you who are at unscheduled rest stops.
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Mr Curly
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I feel a change coming on as well. As for the graceless liberal-pinko poppycock that got served up on Sunday . . .
Meanwhile, the writing project that was supposed to be finished last October but was derailed by my health issues is finally complete. It's a set of 6 novellas (about 12k words each) in a series - think of it as a 6 episode TV series. The compendium is out today, and then there's weekly release of the episodes individually from today as well.
This is a bit of landmark as far as moving on goes. This project has been hanging over me as a symbol of what I couldn't do after the heart attack - for months I couldn't sit at the computer to write with a clear head. So, now it's done, and I'm on to new things, including daily cricket writing for 3 months starting in June.
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Originally posted by Zappa:
rexory - I share your pain.
The problem with juggling a parish and a chaplaincy, as I am doing, is an interconnected two-fold: disconnection between the two worlds and resultant burn-out. I am feeling it badly now.
I am keeping you in my meager prayers, Rexory.
Yes, I'm not really wanting to try and "serve two masters". Got a knock-back today from a parish for which I was interviewed. Not sure I really wanted it, anyway. But I've only got till 30 June as full-time here. I will not panic
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Medical Update: I saw my specialist yesterday, after having a PSA test done on Monday. The results - zero cancer cells detected. Will have another PSA done in 6 months just to be sure - and after that yearly ones through my GP (which is how they discovered the bastard in the first place).
Life takes on a whole brighter and affirming perspective today! ![[Smile]](smile.gif) Kinda matches the lovely bright sky outside atm.
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Huia
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Originally posted by Patdys:
And continuing the medical theme, Evangeline, the Hba1c requirement for driving has been overturned.
I knew they'd listen to me eventually
I knew of some softening of the wording, I'll have to have a closer look. Thanks Patdys
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Unfortunately, softening of the wording is as good an apology as you are likely to see.
I have just managed to get an entry into the Port Macquarie Ironman in May 2014. Because I had lots of spare time...
Right now, 9 hours later, I am in the what have I done phase? The cost of entry however will sharpen my mind wonderfully towards training however.
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Well done dmli, and thanks for the update.
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Evangeline
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How was everyone's Pentecost? Nice red day at St Docs, the Sunday schoolers made flame headbands and flames on sticks, all decorated with glitter (early primary decorating doesn't get better than glitter
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My Pentecost was different this year.
As a minister in the UCA Frontier Services division, I do some worship deputation work every year. Accordingly I visited two little churches yesterday, to speak on the ministry of FS. We had decided that they would do the Pentecost thing, and I would concentrate on how the Rev John Flynn, the man on the $20 note, started FS, School of the Air, and the RFDS, was inspired by God... It was a lovely morning. I was welcomed, and it was great to see how other UCA churches do Pentecost.
Back home, lay folks led my church....
Then in the afternoon, my church hosted the first ever Grand High Tea. We have a congegation of about 30. 90 folk turned up. We made $800. We provided fab food. We borrowed fancy china and silver ware. The senior school music students provided entertainment. Something utterly unknown out here in the middle of nowhere. Great success!
A memorable Pentecost!
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Sounds really good Rowen. As somebody educated by the Pressies/turned Uniting I know and admire John Flynn.
The Grand Tea sounds like a fab idea. It must have been the day for it 'cos I went to a champagne afternoon tea at QVB Tearooms after church, a fundraising one would have made me feel better about eating scones and cream though
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Those of us on team.... Yumminess continued, as we all got to take a plate of leftovers home.
Oh, and John's ministry places included a church in my parish, and we are all rather proud of that!
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My weekend had a High Tea as well - at a Prison Ministry reunion with a Mother's Day flavour, because Mother's Day is quite difficult for some of us. We were encouraged to wear something Mumsy - so you need to imagine BL in a possum fur opera cape (think Wallis Simpson) - a Not Very Useful garment I have inherited from my mother.
But it was fabulous fun, with lace tablecloths and pretty china and a scrumptious spread that would have cost $50 per head at the Hyatt or Adore Tea. One of my girls tells me that at such places one can sample tea flavoured jams and mayonnaises - and all I could think was...Why?
Pentecost, interestingly, was spent in a nursing home, where I was nabbed to be the reader at a Catholic Service.
I gets around.
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And i church on Mothers' Day, having been asked to 'say a few words', I talked of how nearly 30 years after Mum's death I still find myself responding to something with 'This will interest Mum' or 'I must share this with Mum'. And all over the church women were smiling and nodding in a shared experience.
Please smile and nod if you've been there too!
Does this happen to sons as well as daughters?
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Gee D
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For me, to some extent GG , but not in the sort of present tense you use - more in the past. For example, we recently saw John Bell's magnificent production of Henry IV, with him as Falstaff. We spoke a lot afterwards about how my mother would have enjoyed it and the particular features that would have appealed to her - and it's a dozen years since she died. Or recently, the demolition of a nearby house and the construction of a tasteless monstrosity in its place. I can't speak for other sons, though.
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Hello everyone, just dropping in to see how you are all doing!
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Hello Dee, good to see you. Hope all is going well for you.
GG - I woke up one morning about a year after my mother had died thinking, "I haven't talked to Mum for ages - I must ring her." Fortunately I remembered before I picked up the phone. I also thought about ringing Dad about the breakdown of the passenger unit in Wellington recently, but as he's only been dead about 6 weeks that's a bit more understandable.
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Hi GG,
It happens to granddaughters too. I occasionally do something or see something and think my Nana would have loved this. Had high tea at the Langham with mum for her birthday and noted how Nana would have loved it.
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Hi Zappa
I occasionally dream of my Nana and wake with the same sentiment...there are some people you never stop missing.
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I hope my face book friends who are also on Ship will forgive most posting this here as well as there:
Today has been a very good day to be a priest!
Besides telling my people about the sudden death of a much-loved elderly lady parishioner and that the parish (and I) are about to go half-time!
I got to do 2 Eucharists, baptise three infants (including one little bloke who has two mums) in separate services, have lunch with friends at a nearby restaurant, and chat with a couple about their prospective marriage. Home at 4.30 pm, having left at 6.45 am.
I'm tired, but I love my job :-)
Will someone please remind me about this next time you hear me whinge?
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I think parent dreaming or wishing is a fairly common thing. My Dad died 45 years ago, and I still dream and think of him.
Rexory, good news on FB and still good news here, my friend.
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Huia
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Rexory, how is the half-time parish actually going to work when now you're doing over 40 hours?
Today I am 60, which seems so weird - I don't feel that old. I made myself a yummy birthday cake (Alison Holst's Diabetic Christmas cake recipe) and took it to church yesterday to share at the after function bunfight, where it received rave reviews. I still have half left so will distribute it quickly as, unlike other fruit cakes it does not keep well. The Catholic bloke from the church over the road who comes to our drop-in group will definitely be included as I've had heaps of his banana cake - some of which didn't even have bananas in it .
Tonight I'm having a ginger-flavoured bubble bath.
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