Monday, February 1, 2010

Church Education, What Have Ye Done To Me?


I went to a BYU Alumni event last week to hear the venerable Dr. Susan Easton Black (pictured right,) address “Martin Harris, More than a Lost Manuscript.”   She has submitted the topic to Oxford.  It’s all very exciting.  
"Hot dog",  I'd thought. "This'll be a plate of scriptural meat for sure."  (I always think  in witty puns, you know.)
Karren Ashley and I headed to the beautiful Hinckley Alumni Building to first labor through a plate of mystery meat to arrive at the real entree, Dr. Black.
She quickly went through a timeline of Martin Harris' life accompanied by a Power Point presentation, and then and then . . . Wait!!
 She's bearing her testimony!  She's winding down!  She's done!  Noooo.  They're now giving her the lovely parting gift!  That was just the appetizer, wasn't it?  I have the attention span of a gnat and yet it's over?
These people have never been to a Church Education presentation.  That was nothing!  (I’m using way too many exclamation points.)  I wander off to my car, drift home and wonder what happened.
I guess it's all in perspective. I think I'll just have a Diet Coke and watch an episode of NCIS.

2 comments:

Lindsey said...

Do you know that even as I'm reading this I am sipping a diet coke and I'm about to watch NCIS on the computer? We have so much in common, you and I!

Linda Aukschun said...

We are such kindred. Move into my house. We'll have a blast.