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12/30/2003: "On the Edge"

Well, it's official: 2003 intends to go out the way it came in, with an event that completely sucks. Things were relatively quiet at the church and I took the opportunity to start putting away the Christmas candelabra and some other odds and ends left over from Advent. There were sirens. I had joked with P earlier in the week that when I'd seen the ambulance on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day my main thought had been, "I hope it's not one of ours." Today my joke came back and bit me. My dear friend's mother, who was also my friend, died at her home a few blocks from the church. I can't say it was unexpected but it was completely devastating anyway. We're on skeleton staff anyway, the week after Christmas, and enough is enough. We put on a good face for the wedding rehearsal but we're giddy from our season in the trenches. The hand reached out one more time.