Just to be clear, I think what you said was cool. I was just looking for an explanation for the thumbs-down.
Yeah, weird. Maybe people thought you were minimizing the importance of God as a spiritual father? The father-child relationship between God and people is a big part of Christianity, no matter how awesome or how horrible anyone's physical dad is. But regardless of anyone's beliefs about that, I thought it was pretty much a given that better dads = better world.
My third grade teacher called me a show-off when I answered a question she asked. I didn't speak to anyone in school for a long, long time after that. I was so embarrassed that I didn't even tell my parents. Stuff like that can have a long-lasting impact. I'm sorry it happened to you.
Yes, it would. I think God's on board with that too.
So excited for this! The only place worse than Target for not being able to walk out with only one item is IKEA. I have to drive two hours to get to one and it somehow manages to suck every spare dollar out of me every time.
I don't have kids to embarrass me, but my grandma tells a great story about my dad. They lived in a small town in South Carolina and attended a colonial era Episcopal church. It had big, big windows and was surrounded a six-foot-high brick wall. One Sunday, my 11-year-old dad and his friend left the service for children's church like normal, but managed to fall to the back of the crowd of kids and sneak off before the adult in charge noticed. They decided it would be awesome to get on top of the brick wall and walk all the way around the church. And I guess it would have been, except they forgot about the giant windows.
My grandma looked out the window in the middle of the sermon and there was my dad, clearly skipping children's church, walking the wall around the churchyard for everyone in the church to see. She couldn't do anything because she'd just end up drawing more attention if she went outside to get him. So she just sat there and prayed that the rest of those Deep South Episcopalians didn't notice. And then she destroyed my dad after church was over :)
I'm not a Texan, but I am a Southerner, and guys like that guy make me cringe. Especially when they go out into the wider world and make us all look crazy.
In high school, I dated a guy in a Christian screamo band. The music wasn't really for me, but being the girlfriend of a guy in a band most adults didn't like was pretty cool.
I went to Austria this summer and visited the cathedral in Salzburg, where they have five organs (four mini, one huge). And Mozart used to be their organist. I'm a big fan of contemporary worship music, but the thought of Mozart playing the very organ(s) I was looking at sent chills up my spine.
Oh man, I don't even have kids and my husband and I regularly phone in Sunday dinner. We go to the grocery store on Sunday afternoon to shop for the rest of the week, but we just can't get up for planning Sunday dinner and end up eating Publix subs or cereal.
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