At the church I serve at we have communion every week. We serve communion by intinction, which means a piece of bread is broken for you and you then dip your bread either in a chalice of wine or grape juice. Anyone who does not take communion (generally small children) receives a blessing. This usually consists of marking the sign of the cross on the child's forehead and saying a brief blessing.
We ask for members of the congregation to come forward to help serve communion and they are then given the bread, wine, or grape juice and sent to a communion station.
Every week this happens.
Yesterday, I had a problem. As members of the congregation were coming forward to help, I handed a woman some of the bread and sent her to a station. It just so happened I sent her to the station where Kaia and Evie Lu were sitting. My beautiful wife walks to the front to receive communion and instead of a simple blessing and the sign of the cross for my daughter, this woman kisses Evangeline!
Pastor's kids have a reputation (generally well deserved) for being hellions and I wonder if part of it is because of incidents like this one. This woman does not really know me or my family, but because I am one of her pastors she thinks we have a deeper relationship which gives her greater liberty with my child. She didn't kiss any other kids and I guarantee other parents would not have stood for it if she did.
My microbiologist wife assured me the hoarse throat Evie Lu had last night could not have been the result of this woman, but I'm not so sure.
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