On my drive home from church on Sunday morning, I was listening to NPR and I caught the replay of Saturday night's episode of A Prairie Home Companion. Garrison Keillor was talking about an encounter he had with a man who told him that Keillor shouldn't romanticize mainline denomination churches. The man told Keillor that things were really rough for mainline churches and his radio program descriptions of the church were not helping. I was a bit taken aback by this when I heard this. However, at the same time I wondered if he hadn't run into one of my former grumpy church members.
In response to this conversation, Keillor wrote and performed a song he titled The Methodist Blues. As he began to sing, I nearly had to pull my car over because I was laughing so hard. It was all too funny and just a little too close to home. It's a song I could have written. One of my favorite stanzas was this:
The organ's too loud, the pastor's unhappy
A six-day week and the pay is crappy
Problems? We've got a whole long list
But we can't say cause we're Methodist
Got the Methodist blues
I encourage you to go to this link to listen to the whole song as well as read the lyrics. It is hilarious!
http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2010/10/02/scripts/methodist.shtml
Even if you're not Methodist, I think you will enjoy it.
Thanks for being a part of my journey!
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