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Kids say the darndest things...
Dec. 24th, 2006 01:33 pmAh, back in Santa Clara County for a week or so. Long but uneventful drive put me in town at about 3:30, six and a half hours after I left. Picked up a few presents I had reserved but couldn't pick up until I was in town, wrapped everything, had dinner, read for a bit, slept.
Nice to see the old church this morning (and plenty of old friends). There'll be another service this evening to celebrate Christmas Eve in particular so I'll have even more time to catch up then.
The title refers to two events, both at the service. First was during the children's message: Pastor Jenny (children's pastor) brought up all the kids and did a brief skit entitled "The It-Doesn't-Matter Home Improvement Show." Every time the "show's host" asked what tool would be best for a particular job, an assistant would hold up a sign and everyone would read the words off it: "IT DOESN'T MATTER!" And then he would try to hammer a nail with a toy rubber shark or something like that. After the skit ended, Jenny asked the kids why their "tools" weren't helping... and one kid immediately piped up "It doesn't matter!"
The second came during the actual sermon -- toward the end, the pastor mentioned a recent radio commercial for Safeway, and concludes his description by stating (perhaps more loudly than necessary) the first line of the commercial. "Are you having any fun?" And a row behind me, I hear a six-year-old voice reply, "Yeeeess!"
Nice to see the old church this morning (and plenty of old friends). There'll be another service this evening to celebrate Christmas Eve in particular so I'll have even more time to catch up then.
The title refers to two events, both at the service. First was during the children's message: Pastor Jenny (children's pastor) brought up all the kids and did a brief skit entitled "The It-Doesn't-Matter Home Improvement Show." Every time the "show's host" asked what tool would be best for a particular job, an assistant would hold up a sign and everyone would read the words off it: "IT DOESN'T MATTER!" And then he would try to hammer a nail with a toy rubber shark or something like that. After the skit ended, Jenny asked the kids why their "tools" weren't helping... and one kid immediately piped up "It doesn't matter!"
The second came during the actual sermon -- toward the end, the pastor mentioned a recent radio commercial for Safeway, and concludes his description by stating (perhaps more loudly than necessary) the first line of the commercial. "Are you having any fun?" And a row behind me, I hear a six-year-old voice reply, "Yeeeess!"
