wordless wednesday

our church is going through a major expansion right now.  for months we've had construction crews on site, and orange cones and scaffolding and even a crane or two on the most exciting days.  since the kids go to preschool here five days a week, we've witnessed the progress on an almost-daily basis.  liam, especially, has been quite interested in monitoring what all the men in hard hats and their equipment are doing.  there's just something about power tools and tall ladders that really gets our five-year old's blood pumping.

this past sunday, we were all invited to walk through the addition, which is enlarging the narthex with dozens more pews. as we carefully stepped through the makeshift entrance on a couple of wooden planks, we were given a permanent marker and asked to sign our names on the concrete floor, thereby leaving our permanent mark before the tile is laid on top of it sometime this week.

it struck me, how this simple action so accurately parallels the very real presence of our church in our family's life.  this is the same church where i played mary in the preschool christmas pageant in 1979; where i was raised and confirmed; where chris and i were married; where chris was received into the episcopal church; and where liam was baptized.  (susanna's baptism took place in asheville.)  so as we held those black Sharpies in our hands and left our signatures on the foundation of our church, i felt so immensely blessed to know that our faith is the foundation of our family.  as we say every sunday at the culmination of our service: thanks be to God!