Italian Day for me also witnessed something really rare...
...,which was me attending church.
It was the first time in at least two years.
I came through the expected squeamishness of singing songs that didn't come from my heart rather admirably, because I was thankful to God for the steady stream of students in the first place.
My being in church was actually an accident of sorts: my mum had fallen out with her husband over a long-simmering extra-marital 'affair'(which has not been decisively proven by the way) with a heated exchange after lunchtime two days ago.
And now he is giving her the silent treatment(as he has been wont to do over the long years past)and my mum decided to drag me along as his replacement.
It so happens that this year has been a bumper harvest as far as my home-tutoring 'business' is concerned, and I genuinely believe that God has been answering my prayers, so I complied.
We ended up having home-made spaghetti bolognese for lunch, and after the service, decided to try the new pizzeria named 'Michaelangelo's', freshly baked and hot out of the get-go oven from last Christmas eve, and ordered the $29 Blue Cheese pizza to share, along with a Lemon Cream dessert.
It was a littly more burnt at the bottom than we were used to, but the unusual cheese flavour made it worth trying.
The proprietor(an American) came over to chat for awhile and it turned out that the wood oven pizzas they are turning out are authentic Chicago-style thin-crust pizzas.
Well, back to serious matters, and the subject matter of the sermon:
Impatience is a life-wrecking quality, which is a characteristic of single-issue folks bent on getting their way by manipulating others, God included, and mood swings have to be 'kicked'.
Also, patience with others is Love, patience with self is Hope, while patience with God is Faith.
I hope that nut-shells it adequately!
It was the first time in at least two years.
I came through the expected squeamishness of singing songs that didn't come from my heart rather admirably, because I was thankful to God for the steady stream of students in the first place.
My being in church was actually an accident of sorts: my mum had fallen out with her husband over a long-simmering extra-marital 'affair'(which has not been decisively proven by the way) with a heated exchange after lunchtime two days ago.
And now he is giving her the silent treatment(as he has been wont to do over the long years past)and my mum decided to drag me along as his replacement.
It so happens that this year has been a bumper harvest as far as my home-tutoring 'business' is concerned, and I genuinely believe that God has been answering my prayers, so I complied.
We ended up having home-made spaghetti bolognese for lunch, and after the service, decided to try the new pizzeria named 'Michaelangelo's', freshly baked and hot out of the get-go oven from last Christmas eve, and ordered the $29 Blue Cheese pizza to share, along with a Lemon Cream dessert.
It was a littly more burnt at the bottom than we were used to, but the unusual cheese flavour made it worth trying.
The proprietor(an American) came over to chat for awhile and it turned out that the wood oven pizzas they are turning out are authentic Chicago-style thin-crust pizzas.
Well, back to serious matters, and the subject matter of the sermon:
Impatience is a life-wrecking quality, which is a characteristic of single-issue folks bent on getting their way by manipulating others, God included, and mood swings have to be 'kicked'.
Also, patience with others is Love, patience with self is Hope, while patience with God is Faith.
I hope that nut-shells it adequately!
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