We are a bit past the midway point of Lent. I find myself thinking of my Wednesday experience from this past week when I was visiting my mom and dad in Williamsburg.
We started the evening with a soup supper at my parents' church, one of my church homes away from home. We had a choice of three soups (corn chowder, vegetable with beef, and chili) and cornbread and sourdough bread. I love these kinds of soup suppers, and I was glad to be able to be part.
We were there for soup supper because the church does a Lenten Wednesday evening program. It was meditative and quiet. We ended with the option to light a small candle from the Paschal candle and put it in the cross-shaped sandbox on a table in front of the Paschal candle. I wanted to record it, because I liked how it looked. Is it worth the extra effort to make a sandbox in a specific shape, instead of a big bowl of sand? Perhaps. It was lined with 2 layers of heavy plastic, not to protect the wood frame from the flame, but to keep the sand contained.
I didn't take any pictures because I didn't bring my phone to the church. There wouldn't have been a good way to take pictures, and I wouldn't have wanted to destroy the meditative mood by taking pictures.
On the way home, we stopped at a soft serve ice cream place, the kind that has a small building with a walk-up window and some picnic tables in the parking lot. It was wonderful to eat ice cream after church and enjoy the freakishly warm weather.
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