I got really frustrated today and I’m here to tell you about it.
It’s Wednesday, so if you know anything about the American church, you probably know there’s usually a Wednesday night service. I leave my location of being at about 6:00 p.m. to make it to the Wednesday night service. I was actually pretty excited because a lot of people were back from vacation and I was going to see them at church. I also needed some Jesus time and church is a good place for that. So I arrived at church at 6:20 p.m. (on time is ten minutes early) only to find an empty front parking lot (or car park for all my East Coast friends). I go ahead and drive around to the back because I thought maybe there’s only a youth service (we all park in the back). But I found not a single car.
I was very mad because for the first time in a long time, I was actually excited to be at church for the aforementioned reasons. I looked at my phone to see if I had any texts or anything. I had 5 e-mails. The one that told me of the church cancellation for THE ENTIRE MONTH OF JULY was dated at 5:55 p.m. Yeah. That’s insane! One of the reasons I was so mad was because no one had ever announced it the Sunday before or the Wednesday before that or the Sunday before that. Furthermore, I’m sure the “adults” got an email about the random cancellations, but my parents do not attend church. How was I supposed to know? As many times as I have put my name and email address on the list, they won’t send me emails because “I’m a youth and youth apparently aren’t part of the church and don’t need announcements and junk.” THIS OUTRAGES ME! (Morgan, stop this tangent. We all know how you feel about teens being treated as kids…)
These are my non-existent friends.
We also have Sunday night services every month except June and July, which is nice. I like my summer nights and such. But canceling 2 of 3 weekly services is ridiculous to me! One of the purposes of the church found in Acts 2:42 is fellowship. I really don’t know how to do this if we don’t have church. I have a really hard time being friends with people because I’ve been burned so many times. Plus, I just like to be alone. It is hard for me to get together with friends unless there is some kind of event. I’m not the go-to friend. Few people ever invite me over. They just don’t like me. But seriously. Back to what I was saying, I really don’t get much fellowship and interaction with people unless there is a planned event. Since school got out, I have only gotten together with two friends excluding church services and Independence Day. I’m just not popular and I could care less. (I could talk about this issue of friends forever, but I’ll spare you.)
IS ANYONE ELSE OUTRAGED BY THIS WHOLE SITUATION? BECAUSE APPARENTLY I AM!
So sorry. I just needed to rant. I just did.
P.S. I’m working on a really meaningful blog. It should be up in the next four-ish days.
Thanks for listening.
Morgan Taylor 