Thursday, October 19, 2006

Yarmulke

A man showed up at the door of the parsonage today, looking for "Pastor." That's not usual. Most people are looking for "Mr Somebody" or "Pastor Gary" or "your husband." But this man politely asked for the pastor. I was kind of taken aback because he was wearing a yarmulke. We've occasionally had Mormons and JWs show up, but never had Jews show up to proselytize.

Turned out he wasn't on evangelistic duty. He was the new Quill salesman. He found the door of the church locked, so was checking out the parsonage to find the pastor.

I was impressed. He was very respectful toward the Office of the Ministry.

My youngest son was impressed. He'd never seen a yarmulke in real life -- just in the movies.

My husband was impressed. When they were done talking, he offered to take the man to the parking lot through the direct route, which would've involved walking in the nave, seeing as how our church is only one room, one huge room. (Well, except for the bathrooms.) But the man didn't want to walk through the holy space just to take a shorter (and warmer) path to his car.

Can we sign this guy up to give lessons in reverent behavior???

2 comments:

  1. The need is great, but there does not seem to be much of a market for lessons in reverent behavior.

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  2. I was raised to have reverence and it bothers me to no end the lack of it these days. Actually, it's been a downhill slide for years. It just doesn't seem to be being taught, largely due to so many adults not having any in the first place. Sad.

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