You may remember that a few Sundays ago, I had a kind of "incident" at church durring the service. I turned around durring a prayer offering to see who was speaking, and there was this mom giving me the big time evil-eye/dirty look when I just happened to glance at her and her son. It wasn't much, but it was enough to kick off my paranoia for a while. Well, this last Sunday another thing happened with a different mom and her kids.

This time it was when the worship leader asked everyone to turn around and greet the people sitting next to them. It's something kind of new for our church and I like it. It helps to kind of break the ice for newcomers and get people loosened up. Anyway, after I said good morning and shook the hand of the gentleman in front of me and the person sitting next to me, I turned around to the family sitting behind me. It was a mom and her 9 year old son and 12 year old daughter, who are regular attending members of our church for as long as I can remember. The daughter was closest to me but when I held out my hand, she looked away from me, purposely ignoring me. I chalked that up to young girl's occasional attitude (I remember my niece at that age), so I didn't worry about it. But then I turned to the mother, who had just greeted everyone that she could reach where she was sitting, and SHE purposely ignored me and my outstretched hand. She just stood there and wouldn't even meet my eyes once. I said "Good Morning" to her and turned around. I wasn't directly in front of the boy, so I kind of gave up on trying to greet him, what with the cold reception I got with the mom and daughter as well. They had greeted everyone else around them very nice, but completely and purposely ignored me.

Now I know that not everyone is going to like me. But to my knowlege, I have never done anything to this family to make them act this way towards me. And you know, normally I wouldn't bother thinking about it too much, but I am pretty sure that this family and the one I was writing about before (the mom who gave me the evil eye), are good friends.

Oh God....or maybe I'm just really, really paranoid. I don't know. I am trying really hard to fight this, but it seems like it's always something. I've thought about bringing it up with my Pastor, but I don't want to make a big deal out of something that might just be nothing at all. He's got a lot more important things to think about and deal with than this kind of thing. Besides, it could be all just my mind going into overdrive. And I think a lot of it is the devil trying to get to me, too.

I don't know, I just thought I would write about it in here.

With Love in Christ,
Chris