Human being in a pickle

We don't always do what we tell ourselves we will do.  We are often very inconsistent in what we criticise.  Two of the Bible readings set for Sunday make these two points.  So our First Sunday Thing this month (on 6th July) will encourage us to confess what we do wrong (which is a regular part of almost all our other services in church) and anoint each other with a tiny bit of oil (which is a much more rare way of declare healing and forgiveness).  We will make an unexpected discovery beneath a gravestone and find out whether it is harder to frown at a joyful ditty or smile at a dirge.