Rocked The House
A house most completely unused to rocking, that would be the house Of God as found in the historic cathedral on Olney here in Norfolk. This is a church that values its traditions and it's liturgy, it's beautiful music. However, today we rocked the house at least on the third floor of Lloyd Hall, home of the Children's Chapel. Lydia had made up a ton of fun things to accompany the effort, and she told the story of the plagues of Egypt. It was a stand up and sing, sit down, hoot and holler and have a good time kind of story telling. Afterwards she gasped and whispered to me, "Oh, no, I forgot to do all the little Children's Chapel Liturgy and Responses." The way I feel about that, those kids, as potential life long Episcopalians, have ahead of them years of doing the liturgy. Today didn't hurt a thing. The best part was that between each of the plagues, the whole group roared out, "Oh, No! Grief and woe! Sounds like another plague," to a rollicking tune. I'm all in favor of the traditions etc, but today was OK as sort of a religious vacation.
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i'd go to any church every week if lydia were doing the teaching. every single week!
Well, it's fair to say that a good time was had by all and the time flew so fast that I felt like the entire episode only took about ten minutes. It would be too much work to do this every week, but for a few weeks out of the year, it's fun. It's certainly fun to see Lydia do her thing.
The usual crew is two ladies who have done this since Adam and Eve were kids in the Episcopal Church. The way I know they do a wonderful job is that Benny loves to go to church. Since he has the attention span of a fruit fly, that says a lot.
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