ELDERS AT THE WORSHIP

 Whenever we attend the worship  at our Church, we experience an excruciating pain that could be equated  to lightening passing through us when we observe people who are invalid arriving to partake in the Worship. They must be experiencing difficulties with inexplicable severity. Yet they make it every Sunday leaning on someone. Of course, they have the innate desire to be one to one with the creator. 

We could see many of them could not discern what happens during the Worship or the blistering messages from the Pulpit. But they would be there on the pews with an unrelenting regularity.

When the Worship concludes, people whom they knew when they were active and vibrant, come to them and exchange pleasantries. They return home leaning on the shoulders of the caregivers, looking forward to attending  the ensuing Sunday worship.

We have rarely seen a Pastor, though the Church is blessed with the presence of  several Pastors,  going to them and exchanging pleasantries with them once the Worship is over.  For them,  they are unable to offer succour to the invalid when they find it extremely difficult to manage the hale and  hearty participants at the Worship who are bursting at the seams.

However the suffering elderly do not mind. They are happy they could listen to the messages that never reach them. They are happy they could smile at the people whom they could see the next Sunday, if they survive.