The setting is the front of a small church. The pastor says from the pulpit, ‘I’ve misplaced my sermon notes, so I’m just going to read from this devotional—if I can find it here. While I look, maybe the choir can lead us in a hymn’. He glances at the choir which has one person.
The choir director says, ‘We thought the service started at noon, so only Mrs. Marsden is here right now’. A parishioner leans over and whispers to a pew mate, ‘I love this church. I’ve never been much into organized religion’.