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Thursday, January 12, 2006 Where to sitAs I grew up my parents would get us to always sit in the second front row of church. I would sit between them and when the sermon would begin I would loop my arm under theirs.As I grew older I started to sit in the back row. Mainly because that was where the 'female ringleader' had the hot peppermints that we would toss over to the boys in the back row on the other side of the church! We asked our minister why he always put up his hands when he said the benediction. He thought for awhile and then said it means 'all you blokes in the back row be quiet.' Nowadays I like to sit near the back or on the end of the row. No - not for a quick get-a-way, but because I don't like to feel 'boxed in' and apart from that I can't sit still for one minute and am aware that I might be annoying the people seated nearby (that's my excuse anyway). But I do go up to people and talk to them after the service - something which is very difficult for me as underneath by 'mask' I'm very self-conscious. But it is important to make people feel welcome. I remember our whole family going to church at Phillip Island and not one person came up to us to say 'welcome' or 'hello'. It's not like they couldn't see us - we took up a whole row as there were six of us! That day my husband and I looked at each other and said that we must not let such a thing happen in our church. I'm sure that at times it still does happen, but we are trying. Most people are shy to some extent, but with God's help we can overcome that shyness in reaching out to others. # posted by shellymac @ 7:59 pm 0 comments
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