Sunday, October 23, 2022

a good problem

Today I had lunch with some friends at the Bradley, always delicious.  However, the parking on Main Street, around the construction areas is not great, so I encouraged the one friend who was meeting us after church, to park in the church lot, where the other three of us were already parked, because we attended the 11:00am service.  It's only a two block walk from First Pres to the Bradley.  We came out of church at noon to find the friend who was meeting us waiting in her car, in a no-parking area, because there were no parking spaces available.  She was understandably frustrated, but her problem was solved pretty quickly as congregation members started driving away. While I sympathized with my friend's temporary frustration, inside I was quietly cheering for the fact that we had enough attendees in church this morning for their cars to fill both parking lots and all the meter spaces around the block.  It hasn't been so long ago, during and immediately after the pandemic, that the parking lots were empty and then less than half full.  A great deal of credit for the happy current situation goes to our excellent pastors.  It's truly joyous to see the old timers coming back, and to hear the sounds of babies, thanks to young new families.  Hooray for crowded parking lots!

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