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June 27th, 2006

The weight of the world

cartoon from www.weblogcartoons.com

You can find this one at We Blog Cartoons, my site where cartoons with nowhere to lay their weary heads find new owners who will take them home and give them the love and care they deserve. If you are in the position to copy a small piece of code then please, for the sake of those poor little helpless cartoons do the right thing.

These are the topics that are on my mind today. Any advice will be welcomed with open arms:

Sunday shopping
Good excuses for doing so. And yes, of course you need an excuse. Think of the ten commandments!

Church noticeboards
Inside the church or outside. What do you find on them?

Mission in the workplace
Subtle ways to let your collegues know you are a churchgoer. This was inspired by the comment Tiffer made about 5 minutes ago. Well done Tiffer!

As before I thank you sincerely and in advance for your ideas.

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13 Responses to “The weight of the world”


  1. Tiffer says:

    So proud! :)

    June 27th, 2006 at 10:04 am
  2. Dave Warnock says:

    Sunday shopping

    1. We need fresh bread for communion

    2. It helps the environment if I stop at Tesco on my way home from church – saves a 2nd car journey

    3. It is the only time we get to shop together as the kids are all working in other shops

    June 27th, 2006 at 10:13 am
  3. Karin says:

    You get to chat to all those people who were too busy to talk to you in church because they had to dash out to buy Sunday lunch.

    June 27th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
  4. Simo says:

    One church I know usually has something a couple of months out of date on the notice board, like details of the Christmas services are still up in March.

    June 27th, 2006 at 2:14 pm
  5. Sally says:

    The church board at the end of my road is on a prominent corner for publicising events. Posters for concerts jostle for position, and sometimes ‘disappear’ overnight to be replaced by a (rival) choir’s poster. There also seems to be a battle on to have the most sumptuous photographic images on these posters. Choirs with money no longer use plastic A4 wallets to keep off the rain – they have laminated A3 publicity which covers 1/4 of the board.

    June 27th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
  6. Dave says:

    Dave, these are good arguments (although those more picky than I might raise their eyebrows at the getting of communion bread on the way home from church).

    Sally, your locality sounds like a hotbed of choral rivalry. Laminated sumptuous photography does seem to be going against the very ethos of church noticeboards.

    Thanks all for continued suggestions.

    June 27th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
  7. Sarah H says:

    Dave, we have notices about the belly dancing classes on our church hall noticeboard. Our vicar is very fussy about not having out of date things so we don’t usually. There are of course the traditional OFFICIAL notices of APCM, electoral roll numbers etc

    How about having to go to the shops just before harvest festival? or youthworker getting essential biscuits for youth fellowship group?

    a little late for churchwardens but… on sunday I noticed that our churchwardens always lead processions carrying a wand of office (aka fancy stick thing) and if they carry that people are supposed to follow them… even if they go home still carrying it???!!

    June 27th, 2006 at 3:59 pm
  8. Nefertiki says:

    I was just going to post an idea about church noticeboards but then got the following idea which I prefer:

    The vicar had borrowed his young son’s electric blue mobile phone as he had to urgently text-message the bishop, but immediately became caught up in obsessively photographing the potted aspidistra on his window sill with it.

    June 27th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
  9. augustus meriwether says:

    How convenient that the lowest book has a dent in it exactly the same shape and size as your head!

    Things are obviously not as bad as you are trying to portray.

    Count your blessings and head-shaped-dented-books, young man.

    June 27th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
  10. Freddie L. Sirmans says:

    Your blog is very interesting.

    June 27th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
  11. Nefertiki says:

    Seen on church noticeboard:

    7:30 PM Thursday: Pray the Pounds Away. Dieting and fitness course based on biblically approved foods, liturgical dance and exercise. If just starting the course, come 15 minutes early to register with appropriate Christian exercise clothing. Bring refreshments to share after class. Course conducted by Lady Cornelia Hushington, the vicar’s great-aunt.

    June 27th, 2006 at 8:36 pm
  12. Cathryn says:

    I have just seen a notice advertising “5pm Open Air Service (if wet in the church)” Forward planning???…

    June 28th, 2006 at 9:54 am
  13. Moog says:

    mission in work place

    perhaps someone donning all available WWJD material, make poverty history bracelet, PUSH, FROG bracelets. fish on lapel, and on tie and screensaver that says ‘JOHN 3:16′

    and desk calandar with liturgical seasons in red.

    you can’t get much better workplace ministry then that!

    June 28th, 2006 at 1:57 pm