Woke this morning to the warmest Sunday of the season. Streets are wet as the snow is giving up the fight and slinking away along the gutters, down the streets and into the rivers and lake and eventually back out to sea.
We had good attendance for the communion services and many visitors! At the second service it was a delight to have people from Wheaton, Glenn Ellyn Illinois and Green Bay Churches! They were all visiting on their ways back home whether south or north. Zion is a good half-way spot between Door County and the Chicagoland area. So as the word gets out we might become a nice rest spot for those Covenanters coming and going.
Last night I went along with Kathy to Two Rivers. The Lakeshore Chorale was performing with the Manitowoc Symphony at St. Peter the Fisherman Roman Catholic Church. It was a beautiful new facility that seats 800! And the acoustics were awesome. They performed Handel’s Messiah - part two and three, not the familiar Christmas part of Messiah but rather the Easter part.
Knowing I would have some time to kill before the concert I brought along Steve Martin’s autobiography, “Stand Up.” I sat in the back of the sanctuary off to the side until I noticed people coming in. Suddenly I was surrounded by many nuns in black habits. I had to laugh because it would make a scene out of Steve Martin movie. Big tall guy reading a book about a comedian in the back of a Roman Catholic Church and all the elderly nuns from the Convent decide to sit with him! Are you chuckling along with me? Think Sister Act III- God is the one with a sense of humor. The convent came to a Covenanter…
The concert was just brilliant and bright and you could hear clearly every word. The singers worked hard to get it right. Plus, the trumpet was from heaven – bright and pure and majestic. That music really made my Lent!
but did the sisters rap your knuckles with a ruler???
with infinite hope,Jim