Driftwood drizzles

[primsong]

There are few things more soothing and therapeutic than just wandering a beach, picking up bits of rock and shell, examining giant mounds of kelp, looking for sand-dollars and chasing gulls. Even in the rain when you're freezing.

Spent yesterday at the coast with a wagon-load of five teens in a non-stop drizzle - yes, we were that determined to get to the beach before Spring Break was gone. One went into the water and froze herself but loved it anyway, everyone had huge sugar-cookies shaped like starfish and the art galleries and coffee-shops were still joy. Lots of happy, wet dogs, lots of shivering people watching the taffy-guy making warm taffy on the giant taffy-puller. That stuff is so fragrant, I wish I liked to eat it - every now and then I forget I don't like it and eat one and go 'bleah!' At least they smell good. Brought stuff for a beach fire, but we decided against it because it was just too wet.

With the kids help I managed to collect a couple little tubs of interesting driftwood bits as I want to drill them and make a 'wind-chime' for my back deck, wood being a gentler sound than metallic clanging. If it goes well I may go back for more and use it as a craft thing for the women's retreat.

Also got the cheerful approval from the pastor to do a humorous Sunday school class using The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass Aged 37 3/4- what a hoot, just need to formulate some discussion questions and hunt down copies off of Amazon. This'll be great for summer.

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[primsong.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of discussion along the lines of "why are we laughing? - is it because we've been there?" with comparison on the various crazy things we fall into because we think it's the 'right' or 'expected' thing to do and when sometimes it isn't really what is asked of us... the way we come across to people who have preconceived notions of what being a believer is about... how we react to or deal with others whose expression of their faith isn't quite the same as ours without being judgmental or getting pulled off track, etc. Not taking ourselves too seriously. There's a wealth of honest 'Christian living' in there. :-)

[thisbluespirit]

Aha. I'm still impressed though - it'd be a bit much for most of our sunday school!

Heh. "Darling, why did you tell that paperclip you'd straighten it out if it didn't get its act together?"

[primsong.livejournal.com]

We offer two adult classes when we can, one that follows a lighter 'devotional' level study together and one that they can sink their teeth into. My church history series scared off a few of them to the devotional class, but most of them stuck with me - I think they'll be just fine... especially since I intend to spring Erasmus on them in the fall just to stretch them a little, it'll be a good 'lighter discussion' time.

[thisbluespirit]

Ah. Sunday School pretty much always means a children's group over here. I like your enlightened approach! :-)