Simply lovely

I had an amazing weekend of cooking, building friendships, music, visiting the zoo, and laughter. Ah, why did it have to end and leave me sitting in my ice-box (a.k.a. my office)? Rather than recount the entirety of my wonderful weekend, I'll give you only a small snippet from Mother's Day.

The praise team, made up of four middle-aged women, a middle-aged man, and a boy in his early teens stood at the front of the church throughout much of the early part of the service. When we paused for prayer, most of the praise team took a seat on a step at the front. The teenager crossed the platform to sit next to his mother during prayer. After it was finished, he held out his hand in a gentelmanly fashion to gently aid his mother in standing. The boy then gave her a hug (yes, a teenage boy willingly hugged his mother in public) before returning to his microphone next to the older man. It was a very short scene, but a lovely one because it was natural, unforced, and rather unexpected.