Hey, but aren't you supposed to....?

I just realized that we didn't get a gift from church yesterday for being a first-time visitor. Wait a minute. That's just not right. Or is it?

There was also an obvious lack of a written program. In visiting churches, some things have just come to be expected. Others are not.

Yesterday the passages used were not displayed on a big screen. The pastor encouraged us to turn in our Bibles, for what reminded me very much of a sword drill. Twice during the service my son asked me if it was raining before we realized it was the sweet sound of the tiny rustlings of thousands of pages turning the leaves of God's Word.

Sweet.