The "Twin Towers"

Not those Twin Towers, "our" Twin Towers!

Do "you" have a church? "We" have a church! --Is it weird how we all take possession of "our" churches? We say things to our friends like, "hey, you should come to "my" church?" Or, "My" church is in Spokane." --You get it!

Well, "I" have a church! And, at "my" church, we sing old hymns. Leading us in those old hymns are 3 very dear ladies...2 of which are a mere 80 years young, or so. These 2 wonderful women are our equivalent of today's church bands! Stop laughing, I'm serious! One plays the organ and the other plays the piano. Also, both of these young ladies stand only about 4'6" tall, if, so my hubby refers to them lovingly as "our Twin Towers", aka "the band"! The 3rd is a young lady, and she leads us in singing...if that's what you can call the noise that the rest of us make! Some times, more often than not, the "Twin Towers" band loose their place! Sometimes just one or the other, often both at the same time! The song leader is very professional and is usually pretty good about keeping her composure...unless, she and my hubby meet eyes! You see, my hubby finds it rather comical that our little church of 20 or less sing so totally out of sync. He has actually shed tears from quietly laughing so hard!

The last few Sundays we have had a guest minister and his family sit in the pews with us during the first part of the church service. This last Sunday, it seemed extremely hard for our "Twin Towers" to get the timing, the key or the page number together! I, like most of the other parishioners, try to ignore the bumblings and play along...but not my hubby! He can't take it, it's like someone is tickling the bottom of his feet!! And then, the guest minister, who is sitting directly in front of my hubby, turns to look at my hubby...ok, that's all she wrote! The lead singing lady now looses it also, as do the other 5 people sitting in front of me and then my 17 year old brother in law sitting next to me...me, I'm silently saying a prayer that we can all recover and get this song done! And we do!

GOD bless our "Twin Towers"...as the one tiny little lady steps off the stage and goes to the other tiny little lady sitting at the piano, pats her on the back and hugs her as though they, together, just won the Super Bowl!

There will never be another church like "my" church!