Last Thursday week I failed to remember that on Friday we were going to a quiz night. The quiz night was to raise funds for new flood lights for our ailing local football club, to see old friends and enjoy ourselves. Had I remembered, on the Thursday I would have fasted, but I was certainly NOT going to fast on Friday and drink in the evening - that's a sure fire way to get drunk on almost no alcohol at all and I hate being drunk. So come Friday I had failed.
Thinking about how I would fit two days fasting into a very short week left me puzzled and unwilling to even try. I needn't have worried.
Andy, Jess and Leo have suffered a bug that was almost certainly Norovirus. By Sunday I was starting to think I had caught it. So much so I was close to not preaching! Some prayer later and I managed it (it was an eventful one, including some technology failures), but by Sunday evening I was struggling again - beginning to feel very cold. I stayed at home Monday and tried to get warm with little success, it was a miserable day until about 4pm when the fever broke and I recovered. On Tuesday I went to work as usual, the late Tuesday evening the 'second half' of the illness hit me. By Wednesday mid-morning my insides were empty, along with my energy reserves, I didn't eat again until Thursday lunchtime, but I didn't do anything except sleep, read and watch TV, nothing close to activity at all.
On Thursday I missed an important (to me) funeral that I had a day's holiday to attend, and in the evening the Agape feast at Christ Church. Today I have managed to exercise the dog and take part in the walk of witness, but that was it - the limit of my abilities, so I missed the service following the walk, and am missing our innovative service for Good Friday - Eastingle - as I write. My daughter, jokingly, said God would smite me if I missed any more important festivals, I replied, less jokingly that I thought He already had.
So I have managed two days without food (very nearly) this week, even if I haven't managed anything else.
If you're wondering how we did at the quiz night - we cane 7th of 10. On one round, we scored as full 10/10, but didn't play our joker. The round was words that sound the same and are spelt differently, the clue was provoke and understanding.
The answer: incite and insight - my only unique contribution to the round.
And yes, I did provide unique input to other rounds, but we didn't get a perfect score on any of them.
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