We
don’t use hymnals in church
any
more, the songs are all there
in
the bulletin or on the screen,
but
hymnals do make good back
support
in uncomfortable pews
so
we keep them at the ready.
We
don’t say the Lord’s Prayer
or
the Apostle’s Creed like we
used
to say it, the way I grew up
saying
it, using those words
King
James heard, but I stubbornly
keep
saying art and hallowed and thy
and
trespasses and imagine the King
smiling
with his divine translators.
Photograph by Petr Kratochvil via Public
Domain Pictures. Used with permission.
