How the devil distracts me in church
I have discovered that the devil is a slippery guy. He even can distract you while your sitting in the middle of church! Sometimes I have a hard time focusing and little things just manage to pull me a way. So here is my top 5 list of how the devil tries to keep me distracted in church.
5. A bug on the wall - this seems stupid enough, but it is all together interesting to see where that bug decides to go and decide how soon I tell Brooklynn about it's existence.
4. My niece talking in the back row - no matter where I sit, I can usually hear her and then I wonder what she is doing.
3. A buzzing hearing aide - this is one of the worst distractions. That noise just cuts through you and makes your whole body feel like it is buzzing. It makes it really hard to focus on the minister
2. General daydreaming - I admit, I am a bad daydreamer to begin with. I think it is the writer part of me. I find myself at times adding more chapters to a story that I am writing while I am sitting in church and suddenly, I have no idea what was said.
and the number one way....
drum roll please....
1. A song that pops into my head - This might not be a problem for anyone outside of my family, maybe it's just one of our weird quirks, but I tell you the minister can say one word and I am off in my head singing a song and until he says a new word to start a new song, it is stuck there. Sometimes it's a children's song, sometimes a church song, sometimes a song that I heard once somewhere, but most of the time it's just a weird song that I can't figure out how it got into my head!
Example: On Wednesday night this week, our minister opened to the story of the Good Samaritan. I was doing great until he mentioned the word "neighbor." Who hasn't heard of Mr. Rodgers "won't you be mine, won't you be mine, won't you be my neighbor." It was so bad I finally had to lean over and share it with Brooklynn so someone else would have the song in their head. It only lasted a few minutes though because then he read the words "half dead" which quickly switched to the words "mostly dead" in my mind and I started quoting a huge portion of the Princess Bride in my head!
Yes, the devil know how to distract me sometimes in church. Luckily, I have a God that loves me more a helps to pull me back in when my mind wanders off.
5. A bug on the wall - this seems stupid enough, but it is all together interesting to see where that bug decides to go and decide how soon I tell Brooklynn about it's existence.
4. My niece talking in the back row - no matter where I sit, I can usually hear her and then I wonder what she is doing.
3. A buzzing hearing aide - this is one of the worst distractions. That noise just cuts through you and makes your whole body feel like it is buzzing. It makes it really hard to focus on the minister
2. General daydreaming - I admit, I am a bad daydreamer to begin with. I think it is the writer part of me. I find myself at times adding more chapters to a story that I am writing while I am sitting in church and suddenly, I have no idea what was said.
and the number one way....
drum roll please....
1. A song that pops into my head - This might not be a problem for anyone outside of my family, maybe it's just one of our weird quirks, but I tell you the minister can say one word and I am off in my head singing a song and until he says a new word to start a new song, it is stuck there. Sometimes it's a children's song, sometimes a church song, sometimes a song that I heard once somewhere, but most of the time it's just a weird song that I can't figure out how it got into my head!
Example: On Wednesday night this week, our minister opened to the story of the Good Samaritan. I was doing great until he mentioned the word "neighbor." Who hasn't heard of Mr. Rodgers "won't you be mine, won't you be mine, won't you be my neighbor." It was so bad I finally had to lean over and share it with Brooklynn so someone else would have the song in their head. It only lasted a few minutes though because then he read the words "half dead" which quickly switched to the words "mostly dead" in my mind and I started quoting a huge portion of the Princess Bride in my head!
Yes, the devil know how to distract me sometimes in church. Luckily, I have a God that loves me more a helps to pull me back in when my mind wanders off.
posted by Becs @ 8:15 AM
3 Comments:
At 9:55 AM,
Maryann said…
Oh, great...now I'll be singing Mr. Roger's theme song all day - thanks a lot. :-)
There are two more that the devil uses on me at my church.
6. Watching the light fixtures swing above my head and wondering if they will crash done on top of someone.
7. The people talking, the kids talking, the babies screaming...it's bad here - believe me.
At 3:44 PM,
Julie said…
Hahaha. My poor dad could barely read the Bible at dinner without us bursting into song. It drove Jeff crazy. :)
At 8:37 AM,
Becs said…
Just so you know Jewels, the whole Princess Bride thing can be traced back to you. If you hadn't insisted that I watched it, I never would have gotten hooked on it so much that I have almost the whole thing memorized.
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