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  • hopfrog
    Junior Member
    • Feb 2010
    • 140
    #1

    Going to Church Tomorrow

    I can't take this inactivity no mo'. It's like a chunk of my soul has atrophied. It's been almost one year since I have partaken of the Sacrament. My mother's invalid state has kept me house-bound, but I have asked my companion to sit with mom so that I can at least attend the first hour, from 12.30 pm to 1.30 pm. I need to dwell with ye Saints and sing the hymns and be a Latter-day Saint. It's an experiment. Can I leave my mom in the hands of my friend and will all be cool? I'll be gone for but an hour and 1/2. I told myself that I would just wait until either mom passes on or we are finally forced to put her into a home--but that may be years away, and I can be inactive no longer. It has me nervous so I had to announce it somewhere, and y'all are people I trust. Thank you so much for that! Love and angst.
    Wilum
    "We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."
    --Henry James (1843-1916)
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    • Shaka
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2008
      • 10461
      #2
      Good for you Hopfrog. My family was in a similar boat with both mom and dad. You will be blessed for your dedication to your mom.

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        • Green Monstah
          Royal Rooter
          • Aug 2010
          • 14016
          #3
          Enjoy!
          Jesus wants me for a sunbeam.

          "Cog dis is a bitch." -James Patterson

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            • thesaint258
              aka Benito Hazard
              • Jan 2009
              • 3005
              #4
              That's a tough situation. I hope your ward's sacrament meeting is particularly good tomorrow.
              Not that, sickos.

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                • Surfah
                  Where's Wallace?
                  • Nov 2008
                  • 33726
                  #5
                  Originally posted by hopfrog View Post
                  I can't take this inactivity no mo'. It's like a chunk of my soul has atrophied. It's been almost one year since I have partaken of the Sacrament. My mother's invalid state has kept me house-bound, but I have asked my companion to sit with mom so that I can at least attend the first hour, from 12.30 pm to 1.30 pm. I need to dwell with ye Saints and sing the hymns and be a Latter-day Saint. It's an experiment. Can I leave my mom in the hands of my friend and will all be cool? I'll be gone for but an hour and 1/2. I told myself that I would just wait until either mom passes on or we are finally forced to put her into a home--but that may be years away, and I can be inactive no longer. It has me nervous so I had to announce it somewhere, and y'all are people I trust. Thank you so much for that! Love and angst.
                  Wilum
                  I hope you have a wonderful day. Also, my 18 month old daughter loves your avatar.
                  "Nobody listens to Turtle."
                  -Turtle
                  sigpic

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                    • DU Ute
                      RIP CUF
                      • Dec 2008
                      • 7393
                      #6
                      It's been nice having you posting again. Good deal with you being able to get to church. You'll be better able to care for your mother because of it.
                      "In conclusion, let me give a shout-out to dirty sex. What a great thing it is" - Northwestcoug
                      "And you people wonder why you've had extermination orders issued against you." - landpoke
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                        • beefytee
                          Board eye candy
                          • Mar 2009
                          • 7542
                          #7
                          Hope it goes well tomorrow.

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                            • Jeff Lebowski
                              Corporate lackey for Jesus
                              • Nov 2008
                              • 69820
                              #8
                              Originally posted by Surfah View Post
                              I hope you have a wonderful day. Also, my 18 month old daughter loves your avatar.
                              That is the coolest avatar ever.

                              Hopfrog, please don't change it. Best wishes tomorrow.
                              "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
                              "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
                              "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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                                • PaloAltoCougar
                                  Semper infra dignitatem
                                  • Nov 2008
                                  • 16962
                                  #9
                                  Welcome home, Hopfrog! I wish I were the one passing the sacrament to you.

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                                    • hopfrog
                                      Junior Member
                                      • Feb 2010
                                      • 140
                                      #10
                                      Thank you all. One depressing note: I've grown so stout sitting here writing books and not getting any exercise (plus my partiality for pizza ) that I cannot fit into my dress slacks--so I'll be very formal in black jeans.

                                      The avatar is one of the huge photographs from my friend David's MORMON FAG exhibition. When I first returned to activity, two years before I was allowed to be re-baptized, I celebrated by having this exhibition of super-huge photos of me in drag, but some with LDS imagery, such as my t-shirt in this one with a cover from the Ensign enlarged. That image is now safety-pinned to the back of one of my punk jackets. The opening of the exhibition was rad. We had the missionaries, a member of my Bishopric and a few other Latter-day Saints, plus lots of queer, drag and punk chums. I was in big Boy George drag. We gave out two or three copies of the Book of Mormon. We had promotional tickets printed up, and during an interview with my Bishop I handed him one. "This is for a little thing we're doing, the Mormon Fag Exhibition." "The what!!!" He was not amused. Little wonder it took them two years to decide I was cool enough to make it official and enter again into ye waters of baptism.

                                      Oh yeah--gotta be a Missionary and testify that the new BARBRA STREISAND cd is FABULOUS!!!!
                                      Last edited by hopfrog; 09-03-2011, 10:12 PM.
                                      "We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."
                                      --Henry James (1843-1916)

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                                        • il Padrino Ute
                                          Junior Member
                                          • Nov 2008
                                          • 19161
                                          #11
                                          Good to hear, hopfrog. Glad to know that you want to return because it means you value your participation.

                                          As for the avatar, I'm not a Streisand fan, but I can overlook it because you're the focus of the pic.
                                          "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill


                                          "I only know what I hear on the news." - Dear Leader

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                                            • MarkGrace
                                              Grooveshark dick tease
                                              • Dec 2008
                                              • 31546
                                              #12
                                              Too bad it's not the 5th ward.
                                              So Russell...what do you love about music? To begin with, everything.

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                                                • Moliere
                                                  One man.....one pie
                                                  • Oct 2009
                                                  • 27926
                                                  #13
                                                  Best of luck at church tomorrow. There is little more that gives me fulfillment than worshipping with my friends. I hope you feel fulfillment today.
                                                  "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

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                                                    • LA Ute
                                                      Receiver of Memory
                                                      • Nov 2008
                                                      • 19512
                                                      #14
                                                      Originally posted by Moliere View Post
                                                      Best of luck at church tomorrow. There is little more that gives me fulfillment than worshipping with my friends. I hope you feel fulfillment today.
                                                      True. Nothing like singing the hymns with fellow Saints. Enjoy, HF. I hope you are refreshed and renewed.
                                                      “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
                                                      ― W.H. Auden

                                                      "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
                                                      -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

                                                      "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
                                                      --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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                                                        • NorthwestUteFan
                                                          אלוף
                                                          • Oct 2010
                                                          • 3384
                                                          #15
                                                          Willum, I hope you had a wonder experience at church. Please return and report!

                                                          What ward do you attend?

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