Church & Snifflies
Both the kids have runny noses. I was hoping it was just allergies, but Zane seems to be getting worse, so I think it is actually “sick” and not allergies now. Fun.
Church went fairly well. Zach was a little irritated with all the singing. The singing ran over and cut the sermon short which really annoyed him. There were supposed to be 12 points, and he barely got through 4. Zach said it was like there was too much appetizer and then the waiter snatched away the entree just as he was getting started. lol. On the up side, it took 3 Sundays to have “too much song and dance” instead of it being the first Sunday. We have gone to several churches where the first Sunday we showed up it was a “special” Sunday and was all song and dance. It was a frustrating coincidence. Trying to get him to go back to a church with no sermon is even harder than getting him to go to the dentist. At least this time he knows it isn’t how every Sunday goes and he does really like the sermon and the pastor, it was just too short.
Zane did fairly well in Sunday School, but about 10 minutes into the Children’s Church he was wanting to lay down on my lap and not really do much after that. He was able to keep it together enough to participate sometimes and he didn’t actually meltdown, so that was good. When we went back up to the sanctuary for the end of church he just laid across my lap and wanted to be carried out at the end of church. At home, he went straight to the loveseat and just laid there, drained.
Zora was clingy for most of the Sunday School time period and just starting to play right before church, but seemed to have a lot of fun once she warmed up. At home, she is clearly tired, but can’t get to sleep because of her nose and sinus drainage. This could be a very long day. *sigh*
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eta: The really frustrating part, for me, is that Zach is a musician. He has a beautiful singing voice, and can easily sing everything from tenor to bass. His voice is rich with beautiful projection. He has ZERO interest in singing in a choir right now (I asked him if he would enjoy the music more if he was singing instead of just passively listening). I wish I knew a way to rekindle his love for music in this form. He said that he used to love the music part of the service and doesn’t understand himself why it annoys him so much now…just feels like it is a tedious waste of time while he waits for the “good stuff”. Us humans are complicated and unpredictable creatures, aren’t we. *sigh*
Funny, I read half the second paragraph as Zane being irritated with the singing, until we got to the appetizer analogy and I realized it was Zach. Oops!
All things considered, it’s a small miracle you get to church at all. Hopefully next Sunday will be more main course and less mini-quiches.
Poor Zane, he does sound sick. I hope it’s just a cold that comes and goes quickly.
“song time” is praise and worship time….so, what is keeping him from that. I imagine there’s something he and God have to iron out and deal with. I could be wrong, but in my past, when I’ve been impatient with that time, that was the reason.
“…doesn’t understand himself why it annoys him so much now…” I understand why it annoys me, and suppose that I should have been more explicit. It was an anecdotal observation of personal reflection. Reconciling my variant needs from a church is trivial. There is no fretting or wringing of hands over the loss of enjoyment of church music. If the core message doesn’t satisfy my hunger, I will move on. Fortunately for me, this time, it isn’t the message, but the length of the message.