Wednesday, February 25, 2009

What I have learned to-day - by Kathryn Fleming aged 48.5

* you can cope with one handed tooth cleaning if you put the toothbrush handle in your mouth while applying paste

*similarly, adding shower gel to the water in the basin neatly subverts the terrible tendecy of soap to slip awy from a predatory flannel

* the chasuble is a gift to sling-wearing clergy - though one feels a tad underdressed when wearing only a skirt (admittedly black) & a tee-shirt (Liturgically correct in purple) beneath it

* one-handed ashing is fine, ditto presiding....but proclaiming the gospel demands a sub-deacon about the place

* the Lectionary for Ash Wednesday has unexpected comic potential in Psalm 51
"make me to hear of joy and gladness, that the bones that you have broken may rejoice" & in the Gospel "let not your left hand know what your right hand is doing"

*while there is no good time for domestic godesses to abandon ship, now is particularly unhelpful

* having a child dealing with unbloggable misery hurts like stink, - specially when you cant even go and offer hugs

* good friends make even unbloggable misery better
(actually those last two were more reminders than new discoveries...but they are major conclusions to be drawn from today)

3 comments:

kiturgy said...

Blessings for healing from your one-armed state! I, like you, am celebrating my first Ash Wednesday as Vicar of our little country church. I found your blog from the preaching listserve. Good to connect with a fellow newbie--we are also of an age, so I suspect we have some stories about how we got here. Anyway--healing blessings. At some point, I'll recount the story of the Good Friday about 15 years when I subbed in for our priest who was literally flat on her back w/vertigo.

Crimson Rambler said...

I'm still laughing about the Usefulness of the chasuble...

Unfortunately if I wore one here, their heads would explode!

Deb said...

Been following your story... pondering the amazing ways that a slow down helps or even hurts...

prayers for healing!
Deb
one of the revgals