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Along Life’s Way
The Best Place:
A Fable
© 2018 Lois E. Wilson
Stella from the first time she attended church as a child always
worried where to sit. This anxiety probably began when her mother chose
to locate close to the rear door in case Stella or one of her siblings
cried or misbehaved. If that happened, the family could make a quick
exit from the sanctuary.
Later Stella sat with others nearer her own age. She was beginning to
notice and become interested in boys. They would exchange glances and
smiles.
When she began going steady with one of them, they chose to sit away
from the teen-age group. It was an attempt to establish that they were
a couple.
Later, after they married, they chose a middle pew to sit in every
Sunday. Their nearby pew mates were young couples. They became valued
friends. Before the service, they exchanged news of weekly events.
Their children became friends too.
Over the years, when they were empty nesters sitting behind their
friends, they saw the wives’ hair change to gray—then white. They
watched the husbands’ hair thin progress toward baldness.
The group grew smaller as spouses died. Stella kept changing her pew
choice in an attempt to find lost security.
When her health began to fail, Stella’s choice of seating at church
went full circle. She chose to sit near the rear door where she could
make an easy exit with her walker.
The seat changes throughout her lifetime had given Stella opportunities
to experience the worship service from different places in the
sanctuary. With each seating place she chose, she met new people who
became friends. The church members became a true, caring congregation
to her.
Moral: No matter where you choose to locate, make certain it’s at the
right hand of God then He is always by your side.
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