Story #22 in the Covenant series

On the blanket in 1995. The girl who hugs me at the end is my daughter, Reiley, who is now 20

Kenny came up with the idea for the blanket years before he and the others started our church. He used to talk about it with his friends and say, “If I ever start a church I want a blanket for the kids to sit on with me during worship.” Kenny didn’t like children’s sermons, as they are called, and I’m inclined to agree with him. Our blanket time has been a more informal thing. Sometimes I have something to tell the kids. Sometimes I listen to what they have to say. Most of the time I have no idea what is going to happen until we sit down, which makes the blanket time perhaps the most unpredictable element of our worship. It also makes the blanket very difficult to explain to the sort of person who needs every part of worship to have a theological justification....

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