Where & When?

At this moment, here, with you and from afar Troy UMC through video of last week’s service. Most importantly, I started with the Upper Room (having to catch up from Friday to today, but coming across things I should have included in my meditations here in that intensely critical (to me) magazine. I am so grateful it. My, often, spying on my dad’s faith (not the part in action everyday, but the source, was watching him standing in the kitchen alone at the sink window overlooking the Eucalyptus tree reading and praying with his Upper Room. (There were five views into that scene, where you wouldn’t be seen or detected. The treehouse would have been a sixth, but you would definitely be seen in that tree with no walls on the platform.) After the first time, I would sneak up to watch him. He was a man who quietly, humbly passed his Faith on to others through living and worshiping.

Another where comes to mind for me (memory). We usually vacationed for 10-days to two weeks every year. Getting one adult member of our party to a strange church was a fight dad didn’t want to have on vacation. But, one year, at Yellowstone, there was a flyer in our room about a service held in an outdoor space right there in the park. I was 11 or 12 and it was my first exposure to worship with no walls, yet in the most beautiful church I had ever beheld — Nature, the Creator’s Creation! We were dressed in our Sunday clothes (even in a park). We didn’t know the other congregants or the Pastor/Chaplain, yet, other than Aldersgate/Little Grassy, it is the richest “Where” I can recall. It sure put a whole new spin on “Where” for me!

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