Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Worship

We were looking at worship last night in Zac's and what it means to people. Preparing for it earlier in the day I remembered a piece of writing I'd done, probably about 10 years ago.

At the time the children were still in school and I was struggling with anxiety and depression. Just the thought of going to Sainsburys was enough to panic me. We had a writers' group in church and our set task one evening was to write about worship. I'd recently read in the Message version of the bible the first verse of Romans chapter 12, and using that as my reference point I wrote this:

Wednesday

Got up. Made porridge and sandwiches. Dressed. Took children to school. Went to Sainsburys. Came home. Resisted temptation to leave shopping on kitchen floor and unpacked bag after bag after bag of shopping. Listened to the Archers. Walked the dog. Fetched children from school. Cooked dinner. Took son to football training. Fetched son from football training. Watched TV. Went to bed. Fell in gratefully, relieved to have got through another day. Thank God.

(Continued on my bits that are too long)

3 comments:

James Higham said...

Porridge and sandwiches - hmmm, quite a meal.

SmitoniusAndSonata said...

Sometimes just keeping on going is the best you can do . And the dogged courage it takes , though not always recognised , is worthy of a fanfare .

Anonymous said...

I remember this well, Ella xxx