hallelujah

ok, so church was near-to-capacity packed..........with the folks who are always in attendence, and those who appear at major holidays.....i saw a woman whose obit i thought i saw this past week.....must have been somebody else with a really similar name and middle initial......good thing i am slow about sending cards.......there was a 7 piece brass/wind ensemble that managed to make a major joyful-noise......and the choir was so large they had to use both sets of choir robes.......sunday school was more intimate, with much of the time spent debriefing our friend sharon who just got back from visiting her daughter who is teaching preschool for a year in dijon.....oh, how i wish i was going to france anytime soon......ah well.....turns out it was NOT my turn to teach sunday school, and i happily sat back while my good friend cynthia taught instead.....and covered many of the points i had planned to cover.......and then she surprised me by pulling out of her bible an offering envelope from a local anglican church.....seems she has attended a funeral there in the past year or os....and had been so moved by the (female) priest presenting the eulogy that she had grabbed the first thing she saw to take notes.....i was impressed that she oculd still put her hands upon it.....and that she could read it.......my world is littered with notes taken here and there.......in various states of sobriety and conciousness.....in all the of aftermath housecleaning from the fire i have come into contact with numerous bits that i have written, without dates........that would have ,ade too much sens.....to have taken the time to note the date......and some of these ideas/quotations.....have been very interesting to say the least, and unnerving to be quite honest, when taken out of whatever context in which they were written.......the most interesting is poetry written at a todd rungren concert in the middle to late 70's........of which i have little or no memory.......and only half the handwriting is mine.......but i digress.........from my report of church this easter sunday.......lots of pink coats and corsages......and though we will be traveling next sunday, we will keep our u-of-l graduate pastor in mind.......he told me this morning he was so beside himself after louisville's win yesterday that he almost had to call in sick......such is basketball here in the heartland.......amen, amen, and amen...............