Shirt-tail Deacon
April 30th, 2023 by G.
On the sweetness of Mormon life.
Your deacon is radiant as he goes to take the sacrament trays. His boots are polished (by him). His shirt is white and ironed (by him). His tie is tied (by him). His shirttail is flapping in the breeze.
Zen
April 30, 2023
I love these posts and I think they are important. People can argue about doctrine and what the Scriptures mean, but we all hunger for beauties in life.
Many people are in despair, partly because they can not imagine a beautiful world. They hear every day how we only have a few years until climate change destroys the planet and culture grows progressively schizophrenic. But if they can see meaning and beauty in simple ordinary lives, then that is something that can not be argued with.
Eric
May 1, 2023
There was a mom in my grandma’s ward whose sons were always fastidious about keeping their shirts tucked in. When asked how she trained them so well, the mom said that she had sewed some frilly lace to the edges of their shirts.
SoG
May 1, 2023
Better than the deacon with the pissed off look on his face, the wrinkled, dirty, and untucked “white” shirt with no tie, who goes out after sacrament to play games on his phone in the lobby.
I asked the Bishop if this was really the best way to treat the sacred ordinance, and he just replied “we’re just glad this youth is willing to pass the sacrament”
On the other hand, I visited a ward where an elderly immigrant also had a dirty, wrinkled, untucked white shirt with no tie was passing the sacrament – but he had such an expression of joy and was so clearly ecstatic to be passing the sacrament, I really was just glad he was there. He made my Sunday better.
But passing the sacrament should be treated as something sacred. It’s the bishop’s call, so I just registered my concern and left it at that.