October 3, 2013 parish poetry Why are we here? recently found on an old backup disk, and not seen for many years. Now in the wild. They come for entertainment or to meet up with their friends a cup of tea, a little sing but please – not too much of that religion though – it makes one uncomfort-able And even in these hard, hard pews the one thing we will not do is be challenged or led to the place we will. not. go. One comes to the Church (our beautiful church!) to escape the world to be sheltered from the storm outside to feel… reassured by melodies well known and passages repeated from Sunday School to dinner table of ages past from where we will. not. grow. And yet the Gospel will not be silenced will not be shut out no matter how loudly you sing the psalm The Gospel cannot be ignored, especially if that priest keeps mentioning it. We will mutter under our breath and protest under cover of darkness and threatened to take our envelopes, our custom elsewhere for this is how we like it now and forever more. January 2005 By spr
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