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Today’s Blog Post
Eyjafjallajokull, Eyjafjallajokull, Eyjafjallajokull, Eyjafjallajokull…
I went to bed last evening trying to say this name. Too funny.
That is “EYE-a-fyat-la-jo-kutl”. It is the name of the volcano in Iceland that has blown its top, spewed the Ash clouds throughout the upper atmosphere and shut down air lines everywhere.
I am convinced that the name simply describes what is happening within the mountain. It is the human being’s way to describe what is happening when something blows.
Now taking that a few more steps in my thinking I will be substituting “EYE-a-fyat-la-jo-kutl” for more commonly known “$&!##” when I hit my thumb with the hammer. Or “EYE-a-fyat-la-jo-kutl” works well when someone cuts me off in traffic. Or when a church member acts out in some weird way… and I need to tell them politely that I don’t give a “EYE-a-fyat-la-jo-kutl” what you think.
I searched the Web for way to pronounce Eyjafjallajokull. It is hilarious. The New Announcers just about died the day that Eyjafjallajokull… EYE-a-fyat-la-jo-kutl erupted.
Now Pentecostal should have no problems with this. They speak in tongues. And for years their ministers have been looking for a phrase or set of words that will release the dear saints to become tongue talking, Holy Ghost Fired, Saints of God.
In a visit to another minister’s church one day they had a long list of names inscribed on brass plaque just inside the door. The names were all Ukrainian. He joked with me, “in order to get your people speaking in tongues have them come to our church and simply read off the names on this list quickly. This is our Pentecostal Wall.”
The Minister was the Pastor of a Ukrainian Catholic Church.
But because people can’t get to that church, we can use the Volcano.
Now Pentecostal Saints will roll over and want my head for making light of their Speaking in Tongues. Well… I am not making fun of it – simply describing what I have witnessed in my 35 years of church work.
One Evangelist that specialized in getting people to talk tongues approached people in a rapid fashion. Stopping in front of them he would launch his “ministry” to them, “Now say after me, La La La Lee Lee Lee.”
The candidates would then La La and Lee Lee… stare at the loud Evangelist in front of them.. blink and look really stupid. Then if that didn’t work he would use another series of syllables to kick their tongue loose. If that didn’t work he would slap their foreheads with his big palm and yell loudly, “Receive the Holy Spirit of God – NOW! Yadda Yaada yee hallalalalauejah Hee Hee!” (or something like that).
One church board member approached me after the Evangelist let go with the slap and asked, “Do you think we should stop him?”
In 1968 that was the general fare of certain Ministers that could get results. Ordinary Pastors and Ministers tended to back away from the theatrics that others used.
I smile when I think back at what has gone on in our churches over the years… and shudder as well.
Eyjafjallajokull… EYE-a-fyat-la-jo-kutl couldn’t help much back then eiher.
At a certain stage people were expected to “fall under the power of God”. When the Evangelist did his stuff, they would hit the floor getting all blessed. If they didn’t they would give them a little shove backwards.
Being kind of smart @$$ I would place one foot behind the other so that he couldn’t lay me out on the floor. I grinned when he said, “Be filled… Eyjafjallajokull… EYE-a-fyat-la-jo-kutl” He didn’t seem to like that. Sheesh.
Now as I minister to the Presbyterians this next weekend – I don’t think that it would work. Some how they might not like too much of that kind of stuff… that side show that some have created.
I have a hard time hearing some of the Scottish accents of the dear folk… :-)
We certainly are a strange bunch of people… we Pentecostals.
When the retiring Pastor of the St Johns Presbyterian church talked with me on the phone about speaking here… he softly dropped a hint that perhaps too much Pentecostalism would not be accepted. Poor fellow. He must have met some of the Evangelists that I know as well.
Oh yes… I do speak in tongues… and have fallen down once in a while – but that is another story.
I am more concerned that what I say in English as my mother tongue is the same thing that I do and visa cersa…
Eyjafjallajokull… EYE-a-fyat-la-jo-kutl won’t help me if I live like Hell and try to preach like Heaven.
So with that note… have a Eyjafjallajokull… EYE-a-fyat-la-jo-kutl great day.
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jq-sMZtSww
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull.ogg
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html
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