worship vacation

so – it’s sunday and we’re out of town. and we’re looking for a place to go to church. everyone back here has recommended that we try Morningstar in rock hill, s.c.. it’s rick joyner’s church and i enjoy his books. it turns out to be located at the old heritage usa (where my grandparents worked back in the day).

we arrived at the old Heritage USA and spent some time just sighting seeing the old place. my grandmother showed us where she used to work and where papa's office was (papa = my grandfather, in case you didn't already know that).

it was about now that we noticed the lack of cars. sure, we were a little early - but we wanted to be early. we finally pulled into the parking lot and there was a very large security guard (he looked a lot like john candy - but I didn't want to say that to him).

he said: "sorry folks! we're closed!"
me: "closed! what kind of church is this? where's suzi?"
guard: "oh! we close every month of july - it's our sabbatical month."
me: "you - you ... sabbatical month! that's ... i've never heard of such a thing.
guard: "Oh, just come back in august and we'll let you right in!"
me: "But ... but ... we just sold my grandmother's house. we don't really have anyplace to stay and ... "

it was about now that i looked back and saw the disappointment on both the wife’s and grandmother's face. 'here they are to worship!' i heard God saying.

i smiled at the guard and said: "well - ok. have a great day." he turned and started to walk back to his guard house. when he did, i made my move:

i grabbed his pistol!

me: "ok - fat man! we've come all the way from lynchburg, virginia and we're here to have a worship service! so - let's get these nice ladies inside and why don't you get some preacher and some worship-type people down here - pronto!"

a short hostage/terrorist session later ... we had rick and suzi and the rest of their worship team down there to give us our very own service. of course, i'm now in jail. but that's not going to stop us from trying to go on another worship vacation! :)

your pal - clark w. grizwold