http://erikanderica.org/erica/2008/08/31/repetition/ A blog by Erica Schemper Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:23:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://erikanderica.org/erica/2008/08/31/repetition/#comment-10736 Alex Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:33:49 +0000 http://erikanderica.org/erica/2008/08/31/repetition/#comment-10736 Aw, thanks for posting about my sweet Thomas... Aw, thanks for posting about my sweet Thomas…

]]> http://erikanderica.org/erica/2008/08/31/repetition/#comment-10510 Meika Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:12:52 +0000 http://erikanderica.org/erica/2008/08/31/repetition/#comment-10510 One of the things I really miss about our Lutheran church in Japan is the liturgy. I find that my mind wanders so much in the course of a service that having the same thing repeated each week meant that I got much more out of it than the most carefully-formulated unique-to-the-week liturgy in our current church (or any other, really). And in times when I just can't listen to 90% of the sermon - like when I had a five-month-old with me, or when the combination of August hotstuffyness and the precise tilt of the pews has me struggling against lightheadedness and imagining what will happen if I pass out in the middle of the service - a consistent liturgy still allowed me to leave feeling that I had received something and made some kind of contact with God in a way that I can't on my own. One of the things I really miss about our Lutheran church in Japan is the liturgy. I find that my mind wanders so much in the course of a service that having the same thing repeated each week meant that I got much more out of it than the most carefully-formulated unique-to-the-week liturgy in our current church (or any other, really). And in times when I just can’t listen to 90% of the sermon - like when I had a five-month-old with me, or when the combination of August hotstuffyness and the precise tilt of the pews has me struggling against lightheadedness and imagining what will happen if I pass out in the middle of the service - a consistent liturgy still allowed me to leave feeling that I had received something and made some kind of contact with God in a way that I can’t on my own.

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