tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876613.post116535384967100837..comments2023-11-20T10:17:40.928+00:00Comments on Good in Parts: A post just for Songbird...Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171138485811816831noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876613.post-1166473330026456612006-12-18T20:22:00.000+00:002006-12-18T20:22:00.000+00:00Thought you'd like these comments from the Archers...Thought you'd like these comments from the Archers' websitehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbarchers/F2693940?thread=3753683<BR/><BR/>Do people make and take their own? At our church everyone turns up half an hour before the service and makes one <BR/><BR/>Message 2 - posted by The blessed songsinger (U2319309) , 1 Hour Ago<BR/>At our church the volunteers turn up the day before and spend hours making them. I didn't know that people took their own.<BR/><BR/>Message 3 - posted by Ishmael Gelbvieh (U6698802) **, 59 Minutes Ago<BR/>I tried growing some this year. Not easy as they are quite demanding and need good soil.<BR/>Much better than the imported ones though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876613.post-1165435479119668932006-12-06T20:04:00.000+00:002006-12-06T20:04:00.000+00:00Bah humbug.I love Christingle. Always have. I re...Bah humbug.<BR/><BR/>I love Christingle. Always have. I remember one magical service as a child where we came out of the candlelit church bearing our small lights and it had been snowing but was oh so still so the candles stayed alight for ever. Yes it really was a cliched Christmas seen but it really did feel that we were truly bearing the light out from the church into the world - quite an impact on a smallish child (actually I may have been a teenager by that point). I seem to remember even my parents were impressed though.<BR/><BR/>(Mind you the way the Children's Society explanation is written is fairly vomit inducing I agree.)Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360878379989903535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876613.post-1165425710657502502006-12-06T17:21:00.000+00:002006-12-06T17:21:00.000+00:00Sorry to say I never liked it when I was CofE many...Sorry to say I never liked it when I was CofE many years ago, and I don't like any more now as a Baptist! But glad you are home safe from IndiaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876613.post-1165358352074860902006-12-05T22:39:00.000+00:002006-12-05T22:39:00.000+00:00You're absolutely right, my friend. I'm just weary...You're absolutely right, my friend. I'm just weary and cynical. Blame the jet lag, because infants' school nativities actually /do/ make me cry,- and I'm all for incarnational stuff really!<BR/>Probably time I went to bed ;-)Kathrynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09171138485811816831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876613.post-1165358093436222482006-12-05T22:34:00.000+00:002006-12-05T22:34:00.000+00:00OK. I CAN see your point, and after India it must ...OK. I CAN see your point, and after India it must be simply awful (although I think I would find infant school nativity worse what with the vying for the tinsel crowns), but actually for me it is great that this service IS so popular and gives many an opportunity to have just a LITTLE of the wonder of the candlelit service. In the same way I'm happy that the "Day star on high" (I'll explain that one day if you really want me to) has gone up on my parents' church this weekend waaayyy too early to combine with the village Chrsitmas fair. Yes it IS combining Christ with the secular and possibly even with the pagan but that's how the early saints brought Christianity here in the first place isn't it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7876613.post-1165357401806592282006-12-05T22:23:00.000+00:002006-12-05T22:23:00.000+00:00Gracious!Thank you for the explanation. Believe me...Gracious!<BR/>Thank you for the explanation. Believe me, we have our own odd American habits.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08235049965406944684noreply@blogger.com