Strange Happenings

I woke up yesterday and stared curiously at the odd glowing of my blinds. Then it dawned on me. Sun! I'd forgotten (in a little over a week, which shows the amazing powers of my short term memory) what the sun looks like when it shines in the window. I was happy to be reminded.

Today the mother of one of my students came in - she is definitely my favorite of all of the parents I've met - and chatted for awhile. She began asking questions about my church, and whether it was Baptist of Pentecostal. I said we sang hymns and rarely raised our hands - although the occasion branch waving was not unheard of. It soon came out that her daughter had said to her, "Mom, something's going on with Miss Murray. You need to talk to her." I stood there in fear and trepidation. What in the world was going to come next?! What had I done? And then more of the story came out.

The "something's going on with Miss Murray" was, fortunately, a good thing The school I'm at is very traditional, and doesn't do the Pentecostal thing. But this particular family is Pentecostal. Apparently I had said something in class which my student interpreted as "God spoke to me and said..." This had caught my student's attention, since it was something she believed in, but knew that the school in general didn't endorse. Not only that, but my student said it also caught a fellow teacher's attention - evidently his head suddenly popped up from his studies.

Ay ay ay. I have no idea what I said. I know I didn't say "God spoke to me," because I've never had that happen to me. But I must have said something close (God showed me? God indicated to me?) that both the student and teacher took to be the same. And now I'm beginning to wonder if the headmaster's impassioned sermonette (during prayer time) about the canon being closed, and people not hearing God's voice anymore, was directed at me!

Hooo boy. Have I plunged myself into deep water? I haven't heard anything from the headmaster yet (except when he said they were glad to have me there!), so I'm guessing it's not going to be a big deal.

It's such a tricky thing to walk the denominational line! I'm not sure which subjects are taboo and which are talk-about-them-or-be-considered-a-pagan. Ah well. If I get fired, I'm sure you'll hear about it.