We are doing “the hanging
of the greens” at church this evening.
It reminds me of the time
we were getting ready to move back to IL, following the grandchildren. Our
son-in-law was becoming the Dean of Liberal Arts at Sauk Valley Community
College, located between Dixon and Sterling. We looked at houses to buy in both
towns.
While we were in Dixon one
weekend, looking for a house, we went to church at First Methodist. Dixon is
the hometown of Ronald Reagan, but he went to the Christian [Disciples] Church,
so I think of Dixon as the hometown of Austin Ritterspach, our friend from
undergrad days at IU. First UMC was his home church. [1]
Going to Sunday morning
worship in a church for the first time can be a dangerous and difficult
adventure, especially deciding where to sit. That morning, by unhappy accident
we got into the section known as Little Old
Ladies Who Can’t Hear and Constantly Ask One Another, “Can You Hear?”
So it wasn’t really a
surprise when the pastor announced the hanging of the greens for that evening
and a little old lady in the row behind us whispered loudly, “I don’t know the
Greens, but that seems a bit extreme.”
JRMcF
1] Dixon First UMC got Austin
off to a good start, which led him to a PhD in Old Testament at the Graduate
Theological Union in San Francisco and a distinguished career as a scholar.
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