I had no idea how to do this thing, but it didn’t matter. It is a lot like confronting a new canvas. Pure white untouched by your brush yet. waiting to be created on.
that is what it was like. Waiting to be created on. I was a blank canvas.
I remember a story about a choreographer who just went into the studio and started stomping around till she had an idea. A step , a start of a new dance.
I went to the church across the street from my apartment. First Presbyterian . Across from my place.
all brick and beautiful. I marched in with my son and we sat in the back. They put a daisy on my lapel to show I was a new person so people would talk to me. A sweet thing really. I liked it. Graham Kerr was sitting in the pew in front of us( My son and myself) He was pretty famous for being the Galloping Gourmet. I had seen him on TV and now he was in front of me. So that was my first church experience as a new Christian. I think God had a sense of humor and knew what would impress me. Yeah it did. They wrote out the sermon and handed it out before you came in so you could read and listen at the same time. I still think that is a great idea. Keep you focused. I like the daisy too.
I knew zero. So I listened to the service and tried to learn the lingo. I was just day dreaming because it was totally foreign to me. Like listening to a service in Spanish.
Dude I was there to learn how to do this thing that happened to me. I have to remember this because after you are in the know after 30 years , all that becomes second nature to you. But at first it is Spanish. You tend to forget that when you are a pro. What it feels like when you know zero.
but it turned out zero is a great place to be…