You Know You're A Pastor's Kid...

ALICE AND FI HERE:
-when your bedroom wall is filled with Bible verses not boyband posters
-your iPod is filled with Lou Fellingham, Matt Redman and Delirious? Instead of Rhianna, Justin Bieber and Will-i-am
-you get given sweets for being used as a sermon illustration
-you have had more than one (probably weekly) embarrassing moment involving your dad, a pulpit and dancing
-you live in fear of your dad's microphone being left on during the first hymn
-you find looking through the member's directory and ticking off people you recognise interesting
-you enjoy reading the Church Anual Report and marking who has been to lunch and how people in the photos are related to you
-you never have Sunday lunch without visitors
-your visitors book is filled with 'International-' or 'Student Lunches' instead of visiting friends
-you think it is normal for the visiting speaker at Church to come to lunch with you
-you are introduced as ----'s daughter (and resent it)
-you introduce yourself at Christian events as ---'s daughter (and find it funny)
-you know more Christian leaders than teachers at your school and they have probably had lunch at your house
-you smile at people your dad told you about and they have no idea who you are
-you know way too many 'pastoral issues' and learn to keep secrets
-you know who is going out with who, which couple is engaged, married or expecting before their parents know
-you match make the single members of the church in your spare time
-you play the piano, flute or sing in the music group
-you have dreams about your dad preaching at a school assembly
-your heart sinks when someone asks what your parents do and you have to explain what a reformed, protestant,evangelical pastor is.
-When you know that the phone ringing means its probably for dad
-You answer the phone like a secretary, under strict instructions to sound normal in case someone has died and wants a funeral
-When you have theological debates at the dinner table
-When you know 'prayer speak' better than most members of your church
-When most of your best friends are older or younger than you by quite a while
-When your childhood was spent making teas for bible studies and visitors
-When you have heard your father tell the same stories again and again to visitors and you just want to cringe inside....
-you read a beauty magazine thinking "this could be a sermon illustration"
-you do anything and think "this could be a sermon illustration"
-you have a blog called "pastorsdaughters.blogspot.com"

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