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Thread: Are you a vase? I know I am...
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mark_in_manchester
not waving, but...
# 15978
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So - this is a thread for sharing amusing sermon illustrations.
This morning our competent but perhaps slightly pompous lay preacher (in a gown and stole!) engaged us in the somewhat unlikely story of a master potter who opened a shop which just sold vases.
Cutting a long story shorter, on the shelf languished a vase with a blemished lip and a deformity on its back. Years later (well, that's how it felt to me) someone came in, picked it up, and said 'my, what a beautiful jug'.
I thought it might end there, but it went on: 'Over time, he started to see that there was really nothing wrong with him after all; and he started to appreciate the beauty of jugs'.
![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
Shaking shoulders from me, but I was at the front so I don't know if anyone else was similarly moved.
Alas, it carried on further, as the story-teller (author? preacher?) embarked on a long aside about how in the past jugs had been considered unclean, and smashed on sight. It started to feel like a story which might appeal to a (male) storyteller who really didn't have jugs on his mind at all.
This suspicion started to solidify further as in his closing statements, the preacher invited us to consider whether, in fact, we might be a vase...or a jug...or perhaps even a teapot.
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(so good, I wanted to see it after my posts and not only after those of shipmate JBohn from whom I stole it)
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Baptist Trainfan
Shipmate
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Or a chamber-pot? "Fill me, O Lord". ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
[ 30. November 2014, 14:34: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
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cattyish
Wuss in Boots
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I had to point out to a former incumbent that not only had the "I consider it all shit..." thing been done before, but he was about to use it in a room full of farmers. He changed to his native tongue and called it all garbage instead.
Cattyish, trying to be helpful.
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Enoch
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
Or a chamber-pot? "Fill me, O Lord".
That gets a ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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quote:
Originally posted by mark_in_manchester:
... the preacher invited us to consider whether, in fact, we might be a vase...or a jug...or perhaps even a teapot.
I have just returned from a performance of Beauty and the Beast, so I'm of course picturing Mrs. Potts.
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~Tortuf
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mark_in_manchester
not waving, but...
# 15978
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I think in my mind, he was here.
(Had to choose that definition carefully. The 'urban dictionary' has some definitions for the term based on seriously unusual sexual practice which didn't occur to me, let alone the preacher!)
[ 01. December 2014, 11:46: Message edited by: mark_in_manchester ]
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(so good, I wanted to see it after my posts and not only after those of shipmate JBohn from whom I stole it)
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Piglet
Islander
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As it says in the Prayer Book:
quote:
... keep from us all vain and wandering thoughts ...
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