In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye
This morning Firinel woke up very early, at about half past three, and after a while woke me and Riordon up. We all went for a walk together around the neighbourhood, with Rio choosing which path we took at every turn.
When we were back home, Sharon phoned to say she was feeling ill, but she came over and drove us to St Gabriel's anyway. This morning, Deacon DJ was preaching about the Transfiguration of Jesus, since today is the Feast of the Transfiguration. She told us about a "mountaintop experience" she had had with God in 1989, when despite her then lack of experience or training she felt God was calling her to be a priest. It's seventeen years later and she's almost there. :) She said that calls like this were not just to build people up but to prepare them to get to work to help other people. I don't think I've ever had a "mountaintop experience", but then I've always been more of a valleys person myself.
I was rather distracted from the sermon by the delightful discovery that Americans pronounce shone to rhyme with cone and not gone. Just when you think you know the differences between dialects, another one pops up. Did any of you know about this difference?
Afterwards a friendly person came and gave me a letter about being a Sunday School teacher, which is something I think I have some kind of a calling to and so something I've been wanting to get back into doing now we're settling down a bit at St Gabriel's. So that's happy. Rio went to vacation Sunday School this morning and had apparently been studying the eleventh chapter of Isaiah; she came back with a sheep made of a polystyrene cup with four holes cut into it to poke your fingers through for legs, and a bit of cotton wool stuck on the top. Its name, if I make no mistake, was Mrs. Fickle.
Afterwards Fin drove Sharon's car to craft shops (Rio kept saying "Who is driving?? Mummy is driving!! How can that be??"), and then we came home and Fin did some beading while I went for a walk with Rio to buy milk.
I went to feed the Three Hungry Cats and found that we'd used up all the tins of catfood, so I opened a tin of tuna and fed that to them instead. They were very happy about it.
The discussion about double-clicking the menu button has spilled out (at my suggestion) onto Debian's tracker. I swear I'm not advocating for this patch to be included: I'm just making stuff people ask for and, where someone asked how they could get the patch included, advising them to go and talk to their distro's maintainers. I hope this doesn't lead to conflict and contention. :(