music and religion and Christmas: confluence of DRAMA
So I've been released (LDS technical term) from teaching the 4-year-old boys. I loved doing it, but my Sundays have abruptly become a lot less physically taxing. Also I seem to have a problem with disciplining kids older than my kid (younger than E? I am AWESOME), and the guy they got to replace me, who has nineteen grandchildren, is brilliant at teaching them; I think they are a lot better off now.
But now I have a new calling (another technical term), and December's gonna be more emotionally tasking. Whyyyyyy is there so much DRAMA surrounding Christmas music?? Whyyyyy am I in the middle of it all? (I know the answer to that one, if you believe in divine guidance for these callings which I'm starting to because I suspect they made exactly the right choice without being in possession of much of the data: because I am unaffiliated with any of the DRAMA FACTIONS, and quite possibly because of my previous rich familial experience in dealing with very nice and generous but also control freak strongly-opinionated organizational types) Am I going to be able to get through to Christmas without having half my church hate me?
But now I have a new calling (another technical term), and December's gonna be more emotionally tasking. Whyyyyyy is there so much DRAMA surrounding Christmas music?? Whyyyyy am I in the middle of it all? (I know the answer to that one, if you believe in divine guidance for these callings which I'm starting to because I suspect they made exactly the right choice without being in possession of much of the data: because I am unaffiliated with any of the DRAMA FACTIONS, and quite possibly because of my previous rich familial experience in dealing with very nice and generous but also control freak strongly-opinionated organizational types) Am I going to be able to get through to Christmas without having half my church hate me?