Another "last time" approaches

When we conclude our congregational worship service tomorrow morning, it will be the last time we will see our old sanctuary carpet.

So?? What's the matter with that? I guess I have a special feeling for this carpet. It's had many a praying person face down on it crying out to God. It's softness has cushioned the knees of quite a few who are coming to renew their commitment to Him. It's vibrant colors are in the wedding pictures of multitudes. I've been in the homes of folks whose children were all married in our church and the carpet creates a color flow between all of the wedding pictures.

Oh . . . the stories it could tell! The children marched to their places where a masking tape "X" marked "their" place. The pastor stood behind the pulpit (with a faint squeak of the boards below). The choirs have sung contatas for Easters and Christmases. The carpet experienced the seasons of weather and dirt from the shoes of school children enrolled in NHCS.

While it has no feelings, I know, if it did . . .it would be excited to know that it's going to be used to cover the floors in the children's worship center. The young feet of excited children will jump and dance and run for joy. They will worship and they will listen. They will love the feel of the carpet between their toes. It will feel to them like they are in "big church".

I think I might find myself visiting the children's worship center. I will smile, I know.