Sunday, November 12, 2017

Less is More

November 12, 2017

Sometimes, less is more. The thermometer is dropping around here. In short, it’s freezing outside! Linda joined me in Dunkirk this morning, and when we arrived at the church, we walked again into the huge vaulted sanctuary that sucks up heat like a sponge. It was fully fifteen degrees cooler in the sanctuary than in the office. The east door of the office opens to the sanctuary, but the north door…the north door takes us to the small chapel…which was warm. 

We gathered hymnals and altar candles, hastily posted a note on the front sanctuary doors, and squeezed in. Thirty people in a fifteen by fifteen chapel has an entirely different feel than those same thirty people in a sanctuary designed for 250. We were warm, but even more importantly, we were together—really together, rubbing shoulders as we sang and prayed. Less space, more closeness. It wasn’t just the physical proximity; that spatial intimacy reflected a spiritual and emotional closeness that didn’t seem to be present in quite the same way when we were scattered across that huge sanctuary last week. Less was truly more, and until we outgrow this small space, I think this lesser space might just continue to offer us more than we imagine. 


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