at church today, all of the statues and the crucifixes and everything like that were covered in beautiful purple silks, as a way of symbolizing that the church has, in a certain sense, gone into "hiding," in anticipation of passion week.
but i noticed that one of the life-size alabaster angels that flanks the altar had a little bit of cloth that had slipped down and so you could see a tiny speck of white under the purple cloth.
it made me happy.
it made me happy because angels are always bearing news of great joy. they are always heralding the next big thing with loud shouts and trumpets. and, as i think the slipped cloth shows, they are eager about doing it. so eager, in fact, that one of 'em couldn't quite keep his mouth entirely shut and so, a bit of the "secret" leaked out from under the purple.
in other words, everything's gonna be alright, folks.
everything's gonna be alright.
