WITH OR WITHOUT........?

WELL, I'T'S SUNDAY AGAIN.........

KEN AND I WENT TO CHURCH THIS MORNING......WELL, I AM NOT SURE IF IT IS BEST TO WEAR YOUR HEARING AIDS SO YOU CAN HEAR THE SPEAKERS.....BECAUSE I ALWAYS SIT IN THE VERY BACK ROW......SO I CAN ESCAPE WITHOUT SOMEONE ASKING ME TO DO A JOB....OR NOT WEARING THEM SO I CAN'T HEAR ALL THE BABIES CRYING....WHO HAVE DEAF PARENTS...... IN PRACTICALLY EVERY ROW IN CHURCH TODAY.......I AM DONE!!!  ONE OF THE LONGEST CHURCH SERVICES I HAVE BEEN TO LATELY,,,,,,,,

I AM STRUGGLING TO FIND MY PATH......GROWING UP I DID NOT HANG OUT WITH THE FEW MORMON KIDS IN TOWN.......ONLY THE METHODISTS.   THEN WHEN I GOT MARRIED IT SEEMED SO MANY OF OUR FRIENDS WERE LUTHERAN, JACK MORMON OR NOTHING.......THE KIDS WERE BAPTIZED BY THE FAMILY....AND THEY WENT TO PRIMARY AND SUNDAY SCHOOL ....BUT?  THEN WHEN DON WALKED OUT AFTER 30 YEARS OF MARRIAGE......I WAS ANGRY AT THE CHURCH....SO WAS INACTIVE....AND NOW I DO A LOT OF WONDERING.......\

I RESPECT EVERY RELIGION FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVE.......WHY DO I ALWAYS HAVE JEWISH NEIGHBORS?.......I HAVE BEEN INVITED TO A JEWISH CIRCUMCISE ON A CARD TABLE IN  MY NEIGHBORS  BASEMENT WHEN THE BABY WAS 8 DAYS OLD..... WHEN I LIVED ON MADRID ST........THE MOTHER CRIED......THE BABY HOWLED.....AND THE WITNESSES DRANK WINE????  MY JEWISH NEIGHBORS DR. MORT AND DIANE STENCHEVER ON LAURI KAY DRIVE INVITED ME TO A BARMETSHIA FOR ONE OF THEIR SONS......HE HAD MEMORIZED A LONG THING......THEN WE HAD A PARTY!!! MY JEWISH NEIGHBOR AUDREY NEVER HAD A CHRISTMAS TREE.....BUT TAUGHT MY KIDS HOW TO PLAY DROODLE AND LIGHT THE MENORAH..... AND WHY DO JEWS WEAR THAT THAT LITTLE SKULL CAP.....I GUESS THE SAME REASON MORMONS WEAR THOSE GARMENTS?

NONE OF THIS HAS EVER BOTHERED ME.....I FELT LUCKY TO BE INCLUDED IN SUCH SACRED CEREMONIES OF OTHER CULTURES.....AND YOU CAN NEVER LEARN TO MUCH.  I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THEM......BUT MAYBE SOMEDAY.

AND MAYBE NEXT SUNDAY.......NO HEARING AIDS!!!!!