One Sunday morning, the pastor noticed little Alex standing in the foyer of the church staring up at a large plaque.
It was covered with names with small American flags mounted on either side of it.
The seven year old had been staring at the plaque for some time, so the pastor walked up, stood beside the little boy and said quietly, "Good morning Alex."
"Good morning "Pastor, what is this?" he asked the pastor.
The pastor said, "Well, son, it's a memorial plaque to all the young men and women who died in the Service."
Soberly, they just stood together, staring at the large plaque.
Finally, little Alex's voice, barely audible and trembling with fear, asked,
"Which service, the 8:30 or the 10:45?"
(author unknown)
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As a former paid member of the fraternity of preachers, I thought it would be fun to write about things regarding institutional church life. I may be irreverant at times, but as Mark Twain has said, "sacred cows really do make great hamburgers."
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Rest assured I do love Jesus and His church.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it"
-- Upton Sinclair
"A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn’t flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."
—Dresden James
3 comments:
Great story but the title's all wrong...
What would you suggest?
"In The Service" would be the obvious choice.
While the child is innocent and doesn't understand much about the war, that's hardly your point. The title could also mean that the child is asking an innocent-yet-revealing question, but the connotation is all wrong.
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