Thursday afternoon, at a regular planning meeting for the free community meal we do at the church, three of us were sitting on the couch in the parish hall, talking, while Sarah’s kids were in the nursery, playing.
The light in the hallway was going on and off and I wrote it off as the kids playing downstairs and finding the light switch and wondering what it turned on, as kids will do. It just went on…then off, not flickering at all.
Well, pretty soon, I became aware that Ce and Charlie were in the nursery, playing really quietly and well together. And that hall light was still going on…and off. On…then off. It was irregular but not at all flickery like an electrical problem. A lot of the wiring is old but the switches are heavy and stiff and require a little effort to engage.
Weird.
We tried talking to whomever might be trying to get our attention but then the light just stayed on and that was that.
Maybe some long-gone church member trying to communicate something to us about our efforts. Hopefully good…