music and religion and Christmas: confluence of DRAMA

[cahn]

So I've been released (LDS technical term) from teaching the 4-year-old boys. I loved doing it, but my Sundays have abruptly become a lot less physically taxing. Also I seem to have a problem with disciplining kids older than my kid (younger than E? I am AWESOME), and the guy they got to replace me, who has nineteen grandchildren, is brilliant at teaching them; I think they are a lot better off now.

But now I have a new calling (another technical term), and December's gonna be more emotionally tasking. Whyyyyyy is there so much DRAMA surrounding Christmas music?? Whyyyyy am I in the middle of it all? (I know the answer to that one, if you believe in divine guidance for these callings which I'm starting to because I suspect they made exactly the right choice without being in possession of much of the data: because I am unaffiliated with any of the DRAMA FACTIONS, and quite possibly because of my previous rich familial experience in dealing with very nice and generous but also control freak strongly-opinionated organizational types) Am I going to be able to get through to Christmas without having half my church hate me?

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[ollipop]

They may hate you, but they'll be back for you next year. Such is the way of Christmas performances. :)

[cahn]

Heh! True! Though I'd prefer to be liked as well...

[ase]

...because I am unaffiliated with any of the DRAMA FACTIONS, and quite possibly because of my previous rich familial experience...

Ha, these things may not come up in conversation, but the fingerprints may have been noted.

Am I going to be able to get through to Christmas without having half my church hate me?

Probably? Surely the congregation (appropriate LDS term?) isn't divided into drama factions split by ruler-straight uncrossable lines. And it being the holidays, there may be other drama to distract the unaffiliated (bake sale drama, family drama, small child viral/bacterial vector drama, oh the possibilities).

[cahn]

OH GOD. Literally. So it turns out there are not so much factions (dear Bishopric, could you have given me, like, ANY background when you asked me to do this? Like at all? It would have been so helpful!) as there is one person who is A CONTROL FREAK. And other people who HATE THAT SHE IS A CONTROL FREAK. (And others of us who don't really care one way or another.)

I think there is basically no hope but that the control freak and the person who principally hates that she is a control freak are probably going to end up hating me, at least for a little while. Hopefully it can just be a little while, though, and everyone else has been just lovely, actually.