I have so many funny memories of church. Some people think church is boring, and at times to be honest there are those "dry services", but God sees our Faithfulness ;)
I heard a lady once, who was from another country and she sang opera and really beautiful....for those that like opera. The church was full of the black & southern Gospel gospel loving, bluegrass guitar players, Ky. briars and Hoosier hicks. So that in itself was different, but still beautiful. She wrote & composed her own songs from scripture. However one service she sang from "Song Of Solomon" I don't think it was Chapter 4 but, let me tell you, it was one similar. There are those that can keep from laughing in funny situations and those that can not STOP LAUGHING......I am one of the latter. I was doubled over in my seat....crying...the more the person sitting next to me tried to stop me from laughing, or hit me and say SHUT UP! STOP IT! the funnier it became, they wanted me to stop laughing so they wouldn't completely lose their own composure like I had......I laughed...for a long time hiding under the seat finally I regained my composure enough to stand up and go downstairs....where there were about 10 other people.... all red faced and laughing!
Or the time when my dad was up preaching and the guitar player who is sitting on the platform behind my dad, falls out of his reclining type desk chair.....it was so funny. Dad hears the loud bang and turns around casually to see whats going on behind him, all the while preaching.....I was doubled over then too....
I always loved to hear Richie tell about Melissa when she was younger she thought she was all hot cause she was wearing High Heels....and she fell down the backstairs of the church from the platfrom.....he said all they could hear was clump clump clump of her fall....
When Richie and some others sneaked outside during church and was talking to truck drivers on the CB and it went through the church PA system as well....
What's real bad though is if I think something is funny but nobody else in the church does....
If ever anything funny is happening or embarrassing at church.....do not look at me....above all do not make eye contact!
Remember the time when someone gave in a prayer request for her cat and her fish? I was laughing so hard i was crying. Or the time someone else said, "Thank you for praying for my brother-in-law. They did the test on his brain and didn't find anything." My husband was sitting next to another preacher and the preacher leaned over to him and said, "I've had that same test, and got the same results." Those two and your dad were losing it on the front pew. Good times lol.
ReplyDeleteThat is funny Laura! I don't remember but thanks for sharing I was hoping others would share their stories! ;)
DeleteUmmm I remember several instances, which usually include me saying something really inappropriate at a really inappropriate time, in which you would be crying from laughter in church!
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Yep.....to bad we prob, can't repeat those in public! I am thinking of an instance where you weren't laughing but gagging....and I was laughing so hard, even Gary laughing at this one!
DeleteYou mean at the obscene amount of nastiness that ur kid pulled out of his nose?? Bc that was not a one time occurance!
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