Back to Church

It's the first Sunday of the month today and so it's back to church. It's nice to be back and see all our friends. Also the children love the groups they go to. Though its always seems to be a struggle to get there on time. In an ideal world we'd get up have a leisurly coffee and breakfast in bed - whilst the children had theirs and tidied up downstairs. We'd then all get dressed and walk to church discussing the state of the world in an intelligent manner. Unfortunately in the real world the kid's breakfast get forgotten, they want to watch telly or play on the computer or fight with each other. We all take ages to get dressed and then fall out or have to tell the children off or both. It's then so late we have to drive to church. Fortunately we are aiming to get to church half an hour before it starts and so we still get a seat. All this means that we are normally in a frazzled state of mind when we get there. But usually this soon wears off and we enjoy it and are able to relax and worship God.
Today's service was really good - it was a service for epiphany - with a story read for the children about the fourth wise man (but I enjoyed it as well).