church
Not feeling so great
My mood hasn’t been so great lately and it’s difficult for me to put it down to any particular reason. One reason is down to being triggered by a ‘general’ conversation over DBS checks. As we’ve got more involved at church we, along with others, have to be DBS checked for obvious reasons.
The reason for the trigger goes back to our days being in the local Methodist circuit and the district safeguarding officer, She went completely overboard when it came to DBS checks and was very rigid. I have my doubts that she is a true Christian as she comes as people can’t change their ways.
There has never been anything in my DBS checks to stop me from doing anything within church life but this woman expected me to jump through hoops. The minister at that time was decent and had my back stating he didn’t agree with her and had we been Ireland there wouldn’t have been as issue. He confirmed carefully my suspicions that it was more to do with whom I am married to. It’s completely wrong but sadly there are people who take their job too far.
All I need to do, along with others, is to sort out documents that can be used but I have got that fear that I will be told I can’t be involved in groups. It sounds irrational but it’s a case of once bitten, twice shy.
Busy times
The past few months have been busy generally. It has included a short break down south to see family which I enjoyed as it’s lovely seeing the great nieces and nephews.
Since getting back church activities have been slowly started back up again although these stopped due to C0VID-19 which is also before we started going there. Since we’ve been going there the whole church building has had a great deal of work down on it.
The once a week cafe on Thursdays started up first and is going well, the mother and toddler group started on Monday morming and the ‘leisure’ morning started on Tuesday. Three of us went in to do a bit of re-arranging in the kitchen rather than play games.
Messy Church will officially start in October once a month but on Sunday afternoon we went to the village green to set up activities, had goody bags with leaflets and gave out hot dogs. It went well and the children enjoyed themselves.
We are going to have a break next week and have a few days away. I am really looking forward to that as I’m so tired although the two of us having colds hasn’t helped. We still have a MacMillan coffee morning to get through yet which is on tomorrow.
My mood hasn’t been great recently either as there doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day. Hopefully the few days of enforced will help with that.