overhead or in the window

If you like your words overhead, you might have liked the church where the seminar was held Jan. 12. Overhead, yes. But not on a screen.

Etched in the stained glass of the window looking in on the organ loft.

The words and the notes.

That said something to me. Something like, the screen is part of our lives which disappears when we pull the plug. I like to associate hymns with a part of our lives which is more permanent. Yes, books fit that category. So, when worship is over, I like the feeling that part of it--a big part, really--lingers on. In a book, the hymnal. And in the Bible, another book.

The screen does a lot of good things for us. But it can't do that.