Katy McKenna Raymond  
Personal blog of christian writer Katy McKenna Raymond in Kansas City, Missouri

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writer & fallible mom
Katy McKenna Raymond
in Kansas City, Missouri


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Threshold

We kids are always trying to get my mom to try new things, especially activities and get-togethers sponsored by the retirement community where she lives. We figure socializing with the other residents is one of the pluses of living in close proximity to others.

The other day, I followed a group of ladies down the hall toward Mom's apartment, and listened as they talked about being on their way to Rosary.

"Did you know that on Thursdays a group gets together to pray the Rosary?" I asked Mom.

"Oh, yeah," she said. "Eleven o'clock. I don't care anything about that. And I don't go to church, either. I'm not interested."

There's really not much I can say in response to this, of course, so I refrain. "Well, then..." is all I offer.

"BUT," she said, saying that single word with such conviction that I truly thought she was about to admit that she'd begun reading "The Purpose Driven Life," which my brother gave her last Mother's Day. Or maybe that her friend Wayne, who's quite the evanglist, had convinced her to read her Bible.

"But what, Mom?"

"But I have started going to bingo."

Church, the Bible, bingo--the way I see it, the principle's pretty much the same: You must enter to win.
Posted by Katy on 05/01/05 at 12:20 AM
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