Gratuitous Lenten Observations - "Give Peas A Chance" Division

Owing to Metro breakdowns and wretched traffic, I only got over to church in time to catch the tail end of last evening's Millenium Development Goals program, the first of our Wednesday Lenten series.

It's probably just as well. Owing to my two-plus hour commute, my reserve of agape was pretty much tapped out. I have both philosophical and real world issues with the whole ECUSA/MDG thing and had I arrived earlier I might have started grumbling under my breath.

Aaaaanyhoo, one of the things we're asked to do in order to show our opposition to poverty 'n hunger 'n stuff (and, I suppose, to distinguish ourselves from those who support these things) is to wear one of these white rubber bracelets. These were duly distributed to the rayther large number of kiddies in attendance. I dunno how swept up in the MDG campaign any of them were, but I was grimly amused at how quickly they realized what excellent missiles the bracelets made and started shooting it out among themselves. This is, I believe, what is knows as the Church Militant.