Paul Soupiset [1] has a video online of our ongoing work on a prayer labyrinth at the back of our church property. It should definitely be done before anyone arrives this summer for the retreats. The video has a few people in it you've read about here.

Paul and his daughters, who narrate it.

My youngest daughter Lillian is the one with glasses who shoves her face in the camera and tries her best to sound stupid. She's the one I wrote about in those two bifocals [2] pieces [3] so long ago.

My middle daughter Shelby [4] is the one who runs at the camera.

Chloe [5] is practically all grown up now and wearing the pink rubber boots.

Tim, aka Tom [6], is the man in black coming down the path. His daughter is wearing the party hat. She spent the night at our house that weekend. I think she wore that hat non-stop from Friday through Monday.

And I, dear readers, star as the Grinch who stole the joy from all the children who were laboring so hard on the labyrinth. I really was embarrased when I saw this. There are all these flower children, dressed in such unique and cool ways, out there working away. And you're thinking, "Wow, this might be the coolest church EVER." Then you see the pastor dressed in the most uptight, "white guy" clothes imaginable, marching in to spoil the party. So then you think, "No, it's pretty much like every church I've ever been to."

Sorry. Sorry everyone. Carry on. Please do ignore the dreary man in the pastel shirt! ;-)

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What I really like about this is our prayer path through the woods and the labyrinth at the back has been built almost exclusively by children. Very nice. It looks rather brown and dreary right now, but in a month or so, everything back there will be lush and green.

rlp