The smallest Chapel...
I pray that you find this uplifting!
(A true story - 2013)
So, I am in Washington DC in an upmarket hotel
Attending an 800 men retreat.
I am wearing my clergy collar.
I enter a very full elevator.
Everyone is looking at the floor number display
or their shoes.
No eye contact.
All very serious.
Total silence.
So I offer the shortest sermon I have in my Repertoire.
I'm not really sure what came over me,
"I have to ask you people, the ageless and eternal question?"
Everyone looks at me...
Now I am pointing,
"Are you going up or are you going down? Amen."
Everyone cracked up.
The doors closed... There was a pause.
Then....
We ALL went UP.
It was amazing...
BRILLIANT
There was a spontaneous round of applause as we went "up..."
It was so "uplifting"
I was elevated to a new position...
Floored even.
Button hold.
Button holed...
I was so excited I forgot what floor to get off...
Ergo,
The shortest sermon...
The smallest Chaple...
The smallest congregation...
And sadly,
No time to pass the plate between floors.
Now.... Where did I put my key?
~Fr. Nigel Mumford+
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Healing Grace and Peace be with you, Fr. Nigel+