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This evening I visited a church that was not my home church.I found it it on the internet.I went there really not knowing what to expect but in great need of fellowship.
Everything was good.The people were welcoming and friendly, the sermon was encouraging and there was a yummy felowship meal afterwards consisting of spaghetti and meat sauce with chocolate brownies for dessert.
I had a great conversation with one of the older women there and felt like I had known her for years.
There was just one fly in the ointment.When it was time to greet each other,a guy who looked like he was in his 60' s sitting in my pew made a bee line for me, took my hand and kissed it.At the time it happened so quickly and unexpectedly that I didn't register until it was too late.It made me feel uncomfortable and in retrospect - I think it is pretty worldly behaviour.
What really vexes me is that if I had walked into that church with a husband this guy wouldn't have had the guts to be so forward.
Why is it that men so often feel that they can take liberties with single women - christian or not?Just because I am single doesn't mean I am available or interested in people twice my age.
I came away from this evening uplifted but wishing that I had been firmer with this persons behaviour and that I would have had quicker reflexes to have have pulled my hand away and put this chauvinist in his place.
Everything was good.The people were welcoming and friendly, the sermon was encouraging and there was a yummy felowship meal afterwards consisting of spaghetti and meat sauce with chocolate brownies for dessert.
I had a great conversation with one of the older women there and felt like I had known her for years.
There was just one fly in the ointment.When it was time to greet each other,a guy who looked like he was in his 60' s sitting in my pew made a bee line for me, took my hand and kissed it.At the time it happened so quickly and unexpectedly that I didn't register until it was too late.It made me feel uncomfortable and in retrospect - I think it is pretty worldly behaviour.
What really vexes me is that if I had walked into that church with a husband this guy wouldn't have had the guts to be so forward.
Why is it that men so often feel that they can take liberties with single women - christian or not?Just because I am single doesn't mean I am available or interested in people twice my age.
I came away from this evening uplifted but wishing that I had been firmer with this persons behaviour and that I would have had quicker reflexes to have have pulled my hand away and put this chauvinist in his place.