Mood Change

So I started out today not in a really great mood because people continue to gripe about each other (can't we all just get along???!!!) and I'm tired of being included in someone's subconscious triangulation schemes. Not to mention as I'm preparing for worship I hear a guy in the choir-room announce -- "the offertory's before the choral anthem this week??? I don't like that!" (I'm so glad the PCUSA gives order of worship issues to the pastor) So by the time worship begins (5 minutes late, by the way, because our organist was taking his time) I'd about decided I'd had it with the family of God. But then I look in the front row and there is one of our new members pointing at someone to me. I look, and he's pointing at his son -- the one who had been in jail since before Christmas for breaking and entering. And his son grins up at me and I can't help but realize that God can use just about anything to call me into worship. You see, the church members' attitudes were telling me that they really were more concerned about themselves than with others who might worship with them. But the prisoner realized what a privilege it was to worship. In him I discovered community.