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I completely agree with the whole insincerity issu...

2009-12-10T21:46:08.644-05:00

I completely agree with the whole insincerity issue. I have been fortunate that where I go, there's a great deal of love and we're small enough that everyone cares (fourteen members, including children).

I do appreciate this post. Thank you. I have felt this way at times, myself. ~ Just Joany
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Is it okay to say, "Welcome back. We've m...

2009-11-10T13:00:18.141-05:00

Is it okay to say, "Welcome back. We've missed you" to someone you've noticed not there returns?

I've done that. He replied about our kids; he remembered when we didn't have ANY. :)

I LOVED THIS! I get that a lot too....it annoys me...

2009-10-26T15:34:05.211-04:00

I LOVED THIS! I get that a lot too....it annoys me...I agree....whether I go to church of not is my concern not yours...God knows why I'm not there and that is all that matters.

Yeah - I know what you're saying. Although for...

2009-10-26T15:22:14.120-04:00

Yeah - I know what you're saying. Although for me, I truly feel bad when I am not missed. But for so many years I tied myself up into ministry work, that there was no time for me to build relationships, and now that I have taken a step away from the leadership role and have become an attender, there are no solid relationships there and so no one even realizes I am not there and have been home sick for 2 weeks.

You are so right, attending worship is about relationships with fellow believers and God, not about checking off the religious attendance duty. Unfortunately too many are stuck in that ritualism to understand that God cares where your heart is when attending a service, not if you are there and what pew you're sitting in.

Sometimes I think we are better off not attending, when we end up further away from Him, rather than closer to Him at the end of the service.

I'm a new reader and let me tell you your my k...

2009-10-26T13:58:19.250-04:00

I'm a new reader and let me tell you your my kind of Gal :) lol

I LOVE the straight up honesty of your post.You don't get much of that now a days.

Blessings,
Eevee

Too funny! I get that false concern question as we...

2007-06-11T00:59:00.000-04:00

Too funny! I get that false concern question as well especially of late. My parents' home burned the week before Christmas last year and the rebuild is just now completed. They've been in a rental since w/anything that survived being transferred to a facility to be cleaned and stored. During the month of May they've been slowly moving things in to the rebuild and as they are on in years my kids and I have been helping w/the heavier items. As such, we are not always at our own parish (St. Peter's). My parents live 35 miles NE of us and w/gas prices being what they are, we just stay the weekend and attend their parish (St. Rose) which is actually the parish I grew up in. There have been a few people from St. Peter's w/whom I'm not really familiar who have come up and asked, "We haven't seen you in church lately. Surely you haven't left us?" These same people have never talked to me otherwise, not at the luncheons or dinners, nor at any other time they may see me.

Anyway, just wanted to let you know you aren't alone w/regard to your rant.