cool it

We knew it would be another hot summer day in the Okanagan. So we were looking forward to the Sunday morning church service in a refreshing air-conditioned building. We were met by a deacon of the church in the parking lot. He was visibly in some kind of a crisis, frantically gesturing the effects of the heat. We soon discovered that it wasn't the heat outside, it was inside. "The power is off," he said. "I came down yesterday to make sure that the air-conditioning was properly working. We have checked all the breakers and they are all on, we can't find the problem. Do you know anything about it.

Soon a group of "experts" were looking for the problem and offering tips while looking through a maze of wires installed a half century ago by volunteer labor. There were murmering of discontentment among the ad hauk commitrtee. Comments were heard; "It will have to be a shorter service." "People will fall asleep in church. One person was heard to say, "I'm not coming back to this church if it doesn't have air-conditioning." I wondered if the pastor had anything to do with this. Did he conspire with the janitor and jinx the system. Was this going to be one of his illustrated sermons? Let me guess. "If you think it's hot up here - don't 'go to hell.'" Romans 6:23

The service commenced with the deacon offering a disclaimer. Half way in the service the poweer came on and the deacon interupte the service and explained that the hydro service people had arrived and found a dead crow at the bottom of as power pole. It doesn't take much to interrupt your journey of life.