Spring into the church shop.

 Okay, it's Sunday and you all know what that means.

Yes, that's right, a visit to the church shop.

Robert turned up a little late from cleaning the Presbyterian church - he'd been looking for graven images again but no luck. He said a very rushed decade of the rosary and headed off to open up the church shop. He was surprised to find that the actress nun who played Sister Joachim in a film had already opened up and had made a big change to the stock. The counter and shelves were covered with springs!

They were everywhere!

Sister Joachim (not the real one) had been busy arranging them in different sizes.

Robert wondered if you could attach them to your shoes and jump to Heaven.

But really all of this made no sense.

Then he remembered reading about a blogger in the far north who had radically improved the performance of his pop-up toaster.

Sister Joachim (not the real one) had obviously read about this and saw an opportunity to raise some money for the missions.

"Thank you, Mother Mary, for giving
me the idea!"

Robert remembered the spider incident. "Another thing about Advent is that Catholics should go to confession. I went after Mass. As I sat down in front of Father, I saw a spider about to crawl under his Abe. I knelt down and flicked it away. "A spider" I said "A white tail". He stood up and crushed it with his foot."

Were the clergy overreacting to things these days? 

Couldn't the spider have been swept into a cup and taken outside and released?

He, as one of God's creatures, wanders into a church and is crushed by one of God's employees.

Not much of a welcome to the church.

Anyway, on a happier note, the springs were selling well.