tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25192475.post7450530626127207064..comments2024-03-18T19:34:36.812-07:00Comments on Morning Coffee: DisappointedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25192475.post-84823003392531024982008-08-28T13:23:00.000-07:002008-08-28T13:23:00.000-07:00I honestly don't think it's the enemy. Kids don't ...I honestly don't think it's the enemy. Kids don't always know how to pour things out in their hearts so it all comes out in tears and worries and to who else but mum? To paraphrase Anne of Avonlea, it's hard to know God's love without the medium of human love, and when everything floods out of you in Church (where else should it?) you turn to your mum. First time I went to a monastery as an adult I howled at my friend for about an hour and then I phoned another friend who was an Anglican priest while the first friend boiled up Turkish... oooops Greek... coffee for me on the Abbot's stove. Church is about the most natural place in the world for it to "all come out" as far as I can see.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25192475.post-30093865270378706692008-08-25T22:29:00.000-07:002008-08-25T22:29:00.000-07:00Isn't it amazing how the enemy tweaks us, and how ...Isn't it amazing how the enemy tweaks us, and how the worst of everything comes out on Sunday morning (or before Vespers, or...)? I've missed communion a time or two, for the same reason. And once (when my eldest was 2) I experienced the 5-second Liturgy. Thank God for cry rooms and baby monitors!<BR/><BR/>Oh, and yes, you are getting paid. We in the blogosphere have voted to double your salary. Live it up. ;-)Liz in Seattlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08498353122368712840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25192475.post-6435281288415621792008-08-25T11:41:00.000-07:002008-08-25T11:41:00.000-07:00Those things happen now and then, you did good.And...Those things happen now and then, you did good.<BR/><BR/><BR/>And, once or twice, if the priest saw me duck out with a fussy child, he'd give me a bit of reserved communion at the end, but not every time, so I'd just chalk it up to "mom's Liturgy"<BR/><BR/>Hugs.Mimihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02645484704486562810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25192475.post-57070690971460561622008-08-25T07:29:00.000-07:002008-08-25T07:29:00.000-07:00It's so hard to know how to balance all this -- ho...It's so hard to know how to balance all this -- how can we be there for our kids AND for ourselves?mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08080869629149026665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25192475.post-26946312349198567012008-08-25T02:17:00.000-07:002008-08-25T02:17:00.000-07:00When I was young if I was upset then being in chur...When I was young if I was upset then being in church always made it "come out".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25192475.post-52311949201175049312008-08-24T18:33:00.000-07:002008-08-24T18:33:00.000-07:00hang in there with all of this!hang in there with all of this!elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00962587884124992942noreply@blogger.com