Tuesday, September 04, 2007

EMILY AND ETHEL

Posted by Reverend Ref + at 11:22 AM

You may have heard me talk about Ms. Emily, my "organist" at Christ Church. She (it) is really a digital hymnal, but I've taken to calling her Ms. Emily just because I thought it sounded like a nice church organist name.

In church on Sunday, I mentioned that Ms. Emily doesn't know all the hymns in The Hymnal 1982, but she knows a fair amount of them. This normally isn't a big deal, but sometimes I'll come across a hymn I want to use, she won't know it, and I'll stick a different tune in that can be used. It's sort of tricky, and you just have to remember to not look at the printed music.

So anyway, I mention that Ms. Emily doesn't know a particular hymn and we'll be substituting tunes. At which point, one of my elderly parishioners points to the digital hymnal and says, "Is that Emily?"

"Yes."

"Okay." And then, pointing to her portable oxygen tank, says, "This is Ethel."

Funny how we like to humanize inanimate objects.

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2 comments:

Anonymous | 11:54 AM, September 04, 2007  

Haha, that's really funny. And so true.

And hey, my name's Emily and I'm a church organist!

EYouthWNY | 1:34 PM, September 04, 2007  

My cars tend to get names. We owned a Renault for a while (don't ask, it was a terrible, terrible mistake) so naturally it was name Louis.

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