8:45 a.m. - 2008-04-20
It's Sunday, when a girl's fancy turns to...
The latest drama at church. Right now, I'm chairing the Elder Nominating Committee. It's my job to find the people to be on Session, which is Presbyterian for "the poor saps who are on the church board." Like all the other volunteer group boards I've ever participated in, it has those people who do much and say little, those who say some and do some, and those who talk lots of smack about what everyone else isn't doing and fail to bring reports of their own. Those last ones make me cranky.
Especially when they make a big fuss on how I haven't found the people to serve on the new church board. Sorry, but at the end of January, I was planning a sermon. Something she didn't offer to do. During February, I was giving said sermon and listening to my co-chair give his. Then people on the committee were out of town. Then... I confess I slacked off because we had all but one position spoken for and the person asked was still pondering. Which is the holding pattern we've been in for a month.
Until said finger-pointer and her clique were all accusitory and confused at the last Session meeting. And now one person who had agreed to stay on has recanted, and a second person who was willing is now considering not. I've gone from one position unaccounted for to three in the matter of one meeting. The kicker: the woman who was pointing finger at me didn't want to stay on Session. If she had, we'd have been done two months ago. So for her to bitch that I'm not done REALLY rankles.
If you won't be part of the solution, be part of the problem--is that her motto?
The worst part is that I could find people from the "this is the way the church should be run" clique to fill the slots. But then we'd lose... the people who are patient and full of grace. Because the "this is the way" clique is also the "gossip girl" clique. Having the gossip bitches run the church is a BAD PLAN.
Sigh.... And on top of that, now I get to find people to serve on the Designated Pastor Nominating Committee. OK, I'll have the help of the other 4 people on the committee, but.... It would be so much easier if I didn't feel a church should be a place of peace, patience and understanding. Granted, the gossipy ones give me a chance to learn all those things, but I thought that's why I had children....
I can't wait until we do the church mission statement--that should be interesting. Sifting through the dreams and ego bruhaha....
In other news, they've started rerunning "Burn Notice." I missed it Thursday, but now that I know--DVR, baby!! Because midnight is not my favorite bedtime--makes me a cranky impatient mother. And since being happy patient mother is my JOB....
I'm tired of having to be patient with all these people....
