Going to church is often a most interesting event. Every Sunday morning, I find myself pounding on the bathroom door, yelling for Ben to get out of the shower as "we are leaving in FIVE minutes!", shooing the kids out the door - "get in the car and behave" - and taking the dog for one last "go" under the bush.
While interesting events happen before church, more entertaining events occur during the church service.
We have just ended worship, and Mr. Nelson is giving the sermon. My dad feels it necessary to adjust Mr. Nelson's microphone - three different times. After which my dad sits down in the back of the church. with Andrew on his lap, and they entertain themselves by laughing about my toes, which are apparently peeking out of the back of my chair as I am sitting in my usual position - comfortably on my feet.
Ben is in the soundbooth. We have just sung "Better is One Day", which reminds Ben most frightfully of Tim Hawkins' "Better is Hundai than a Ford" . He is trying his best not to laugh.
Mr. Nelson's sermon has to do with light, however I am not understanding the main subject of the sermon as I am whispering to my grandma what I have been learning about light in physics, and giving her the scientific side of the sermon. "No Grandma, this is how it really works...the reason you can't see colors in the dark is because of the way that the cone cells and rod cells in your eyes work..." Thoughts of the index of refraction and laser beams are filling my mind, and I am overcome by the amazing properties of light and how it completely reminds me of God.
Meanwhile, my mom is thinking about Dark Suckers. Yes - Dark Suckers. She happens to come up with an explanation that she claims biblically eliminates Dark Suckers, and later, during the potluck, I hear everyone discussing Dark Suckers, and once overhear my mom saying "Go ask Elisabeth! She knows how to explain it better than I do." I am indeed asked about Dark Suckers, as eventually I am joined at my table by Mr. Nelson, with whom I have a grand conversation about Dark Suckers, light, physics, and Mr. Tesla.
Such is a day at my church. Filled with physics and Dark Suckers.
