Conversation in the pew Sunday
Yesterday we had Hymn Requests and someone always asks for one of the patriotic ones at the end of the Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELCA) hymnal. After we sang "America the Beautiful" the woman sitting in front of me turned around and whispered "I hate what Trump is doing to this country." Told her I couldn't agree more. My fellow parishioner is an 80-something widow.
That conversation made my day.
I play in a community concert band and for our many summer concerts we play a lot of patriotic stuff which the audience loves. I have never in my life felt less patriotic.
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)he isn't the country. He isn't what patriotism stands for.
This too shall pass.
Freddie
(9,232 posts)That's what DH tells me. I know it was a clusterfuck that made our present "leadership" but I can't profess love for a country that let this happen.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)eShirl
(18,466 posts)Ohiogal
(31,671 posts)Is just one of the many things tRump and our new military style "shoot first and ask questions later" police has ruined for me, too.
safeinOhio
(32,532 posts)Imagine by John Lennon.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)The country can and will recover.
efhmc
(14,709 posts)They had truly inspiring speakers and did some service projects around town. Except for the "humidity" they all loved Houston.
Freddie
(9,232 posts)Very proud to be part of the ELCA.