Okay, this just seemed fitting for October and the days leading up to Halloween. I was out on a little drive last weekend, enjoying the fall weather and lovely colors. It was Sunday, the day after I busted my left foot on a hike (and I promise I’m not going to talk about my broken foot in *every* post, but you can read about it in my Cinnamon Cup Coffee post or my last Actifit post, if you like), and since I couldn’t do anything physical but I had no trouble driving, I needed to at least see the fall color from the car. So there I was cruising along a quiet little road in a quiet little town when I came upon this.
“What’s wrong with this picture?” you might ask.
Well, first of all it was Sunday and the place was empty. Not a soul around. No cars in the parking lot. And second of all, the place has not been tended to in a very long time. The pavement of the parking lot is decorated with a maze of cracks, all with weeds growing up out of them, getting ready to completely overtake the property.
It was a little spooky, I’ll be honest. I kept taking pictures, but the place was really rather haunting and I felt weird there in that weedy parking, as if I was in a graveyard.
But in addition to being a little spooked, I also felt kind of sad. Certainly it must have once had regular services and had to have been a place of worship for a lot of local families. I’m guessing the church was sort of limping along, just getting by, and then Covid hit, and they simply could not continue.
Back at home, I went and found their Facebook page. It looked like it had been a nice lively church. The pastor posted in June 2020 that they would be closing for a remodel and combining congregations with another church and reopening. And then there’s nothing after that.
I remember June of 2020. We were all fed up with months of isolation, and thought, “how much longer can this go on?” Remember? In our wildest dreams we didn’t think it could last another two solid years.
And it continues. But we live with it. It’s a whole new world. Who knows, maybe the church will come back to life when the time is right and the congregation has enough funds for their remodel.
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And p.s. I really did write this on Friday. Hive was being wonky and peakd decided to take a nap, so I drafted the post in Hive.blog, and then when I tried to publish it I got some weird HTML error message… so I decided that once again I was going to have to post my Market Friday post on Saturday!
Photo credits: All of the photos in this post were taken by me with my iphone and belong to me, unless otherwise noted.
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