Unfortunately, (or fortunately, actually) there is nothing earth shattering going on in my life right now. So I think I may tell you a story and hope that it doesn't bore you!

I don't know how many of you pay attention to the little details of life going on around you, but I distinctly remember the day that I started doing that. One day, I was in church with my mom and it was Communion Day. Communion Day is the loooooooooongest day of any teenager's life, I can tell you. Once they passed around the "wine," my mother told me to listen to everyone put their little cups (these little cups are about the size of my thumb) into the little wooden glass holders on the backs of the pews. Because everyone drinks at the same time, they put their cups back into the holders at the same time. So I listened, and it was a sort of interesting sound. Then she said something to the effect that it wasn't very pretty because that day, we were using the plastic cups. (Easier for cleanup - just throw them away at the end). She told the minister after church that next time we had Communion, she wanted the real glass cups to be used, and that she would be happy to wash them afterwards.

A month later, it was Communion Sunday again. They passed around the "wine" cups to everyone, all of us drank, then put the glass cups back into the holders... what a sweet sound it was! Although I'd already been through dozens of Communions, no doubt some of them using the glass cups, I'd never noticed before.

Thanks, mum. :-)