August 10, 2008

Overheard

                                                                              
Two long-time church members watch the praise team take their places in the front of the sanctuary.
She asks, ”Do you think, before I die, they’ll put things back the way they was?”
LONG PAUSE.   He shrugs.    “It’s change.   It’s everywhere.”
She says, with an air of entitlement,”I’ve been here all my life, and now I don’t know anybody here.”
He [...]