We
have rather a large group of religious people staying with us until Friday. (By
'us' I mean my place of work, not my family - these people are staying onsite,
not visiting me and Philippa at home). I'm tempted to say they are 'fanatics'
but that might be a bit of an over-stretch. They are certainly devout and dedicated
and quietly determined to convert me if they can. They keep handing me leaflets
and telling me I am welcome to join them for their meditations and services and
inviting me to join them on beach walks and reminding me that Jesus is my
saviour and that God created all things. I'm tempted to ask them if that
includes insomnia but apparently He is concerned with the good of all humanity,
and not so interested in the night-time problems of one particular manager in
Suffolk. (see - The Message is sinking in slowly - I'm already capitalising His
pronoun and making excuses for his inactivity!)
I can't even tell you what their denomination is, but it's something obscure,
specific and abstract. It's probably on the leaflet but I'm not likely to look
at it now I've thrown it in the recycling, so I'll just have to take a guess: The
Church of the Norwegian Ninth-Year Adventist Carcinogens, or something like
that. They're nice folk, though, and one of their tenets seems to be the belief
that breakfast is a time to be gluttonous, so they're spending a fortune in the
restaurant each morning.
As a sidenote, isn't it interesting that the word 'denomination' - meaning 'a
recognised autonomous branch of the Christian church' - almost contains the
word DEMON???
Anyways, all their mumbo-jumbo is reminding me that I had a spell doing a bit
of Bible study not too long ago. Not from a theological point of view, just to
read up on the history of where the original stories came from and how they
came to be put together as they were. I found it really very interesting and I
know I barely touched the surface of the subject while that particular topic
was the object of my hyperfocus, so I'm now trying terribly hard not to
disappear back down that research rabbit-hole again, as I really don't have the
time spare to do it...
RC 11-6-24
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