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Joshua and Ash Wednesday church service
- Feb 10, 2008 at 10:07 PM
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Had to relate something cute that Joshua did at church on Ash Wednesday.
We received our ashes from the priest and are headed down the aisle towards the back of the church and we got a few feet and Joshua stopped and held out his hand to shake with the man sitting on the aisle seat.
I was behind Joshua and the man looked up at me with a quizzical look on his face like - "Did you put him up to this?" and I just kind of put up my hands like "It's his idea, not mine!" so the man smiled and shook Joshua's hand.
So Joshua proceeded to stop at each aisle and shake hands with people!
It's funny how people can kind of be in their own little world and sometimes they don't respond to others. They all seemed kind of guarded and ALL of them looked at me first before responding to him.
I gave them all the same silent response with my hands up - "It's his idea..." and they all smiled and shook hands with him.
I wouldn't have thought that ice needed to be broken in church but that certainly seems like what he did. People seemed to come out of their shell. They seemed to melt a little.
It was so funny to me. This little bitty guy who never said a word, just stuck out his hand!
And it was standing room only so when he reached an area where people were lined up along the wall, he turned and shook their hands and then turned and shook the hands of the people seated across from them.
Talk about a future politician - and he's not even three yet - LOL!
And if you knew Joshua personally you would know what's really amazing is that at home he's a little spitfire, but in public he's rather quiet and shy around strangers! (His pre-school teacher has commented about how silent he is! She says he has lots of fun with the other kids but hardly talks.)
His grandma (Nini) asked if he'd seen someone else do that because Luke has participated in a couple of things at church and I said "No" this was all his own idea....
Well I'm rambling and I'm probably not fully illustrating how cute it was, guess you had to be there, but we got the biggest kick out of it and I was SO PROUD I thought I would burst!
Comments:
Too cute!
Thanks for sharing. Very cute.
"I wouldn't have thought that ice needed to be broken in church but that certainly seems like what he did."
I don't know about that ... I've been to plenty of churches where the ice needed to be broken.
; )
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