Disturbing News
It was hard to think up an appropriate title for this entry. I heard this very disturbing news on the car radio as I left the grocery store this morning, heading for home.
It was announced mildly, that the church at (wherever, I wasn't keyed in yet) was going to continue to have services in spite of the fact that their pastor died during the baptism service yesterday.
You know how fast the mind goes. I was thinking of the pastor baptising someone and having a heart attack and dying right there. How awful!
It was worse than that.
He was in the baptismal tank and he grabbed the microphone and was electrocuted!!! Gasp! (The candidate for baptism hadn't entered the water yet.) Haven't I always worried about that during baptisms where they use microphones? In our baptismal services, they have sometimes joked about that, but always took great care that it didn't happen. Still, I usually feel a little apprehensive when they begin that part of the service, mixing microphones and baptismal tanks.
But surely EVERYONE knows about water and electricity. How could this tragic accident have happened?
I was really sorry to hear this shocking news, --which would be a good title for this entry but I'm not really wanting to do a play on words or make light of this terrible thing. If this had happened at our church, I might still be screaming. It's unthinkable.
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