We had a Godly Play meeting last night, and I told the Calendar of the Church Year story to the other teachers. It's a cool story; there's a big wooden base with a circle of wooden blocks in it, with different colors for the different parts of the year. There's also a slight-of-hand bit with gold cord and 'time in a line' which gets tied into a knot because every beginning contains an end and every end, a beginning (are we paying attention here, Sara?).
Anyway, I was almost to the end, when I was rebuilding the circle with all the blocks, and I started to realize that I was not going to have enough blocks to complete my circle. Also, I noticed that people were laughing. The "kid" next to me had stolen some of my green blocks (which represent the "great, green, growing Sundays after Pentecost - and if you think I can say that without having it come out great, green, glowing Sundays, you would be wrong - so, after Pentecost, we're all slightly radioactive) and was looking really pleased with himself. So I couldn't stop laughing and flubbed the rest of the story. I was doing pretty well up until that point, though. It was really funny. Note to self: keep an eye on the blocks when telling that story.
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